Last week Jamie published a video comparing WP with Wix Studio (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjZ87BIIZxI" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjZ87BIIZxI</a>).
This video was commented on later by Kevin Geary and in his long tweet Kevin points out some important things regarding WP’s future.
The original tweet is <a href="https://twitter.com/thekevingeary/status/1806324078669627565" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">here</a>, but because not everyone uses Twitter, here is also a <a href="https://shrib.com/#Zoe2kRzYDK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">copy of it</a>
Overall - it’s hard not to agree with it. WordPress is number one when it comes to market share and huge community. But, this doesn’t have to be like in 10 years.

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Jamie published a video comparing WordPress with Wix Studio, which sparked further commentary by Kevin Geary. Kevin's tweet highlighted critical points about WordPress's future. Despite WordPress's current dominance in market share and community size, its status could change in the next decade.

The Future of WordPress

I think that the overall CMS market for smaller blogs/websites might be reaching saturation. More and more people are using some form of CMS to build websites, but the pool of new users is limited.

Kevin says that Education is one of the category where WP is losing and I completely agree with him. However I find it very strange, how did largest open source software and it’s community managed to be so bad at providing high quality, official (and I mean official) learning materials/courses, documentation etc. It used to be so much better in the past. FSE related learning materials are so scarce, and often documentation is nonexistent as well.

Excellent take by Kevin Geary. WP needs to get its act together. Gutenberg as a site builder is worse than page builders like Bricks and Oxygen, and FSE is wildly worse for templating than a system like GeneratePress’ Elements, which has been available for years already. They’re losing years of dev time to a junk-quality builder experience - that was already better served by third parties - when they should have been focusing on the UX of the CMS and its database efficiency.