I mentioned the flies, but there is much, much more than could be said about the downside. The balance of the last year or so of working with WP:

Spaghettified Code is Poetry Spaghettified

Show a programmer some of the WordPress code as a deterrent. They should swear off further coding with immediate effect. Just take a look at this nonsense, replete with single spaces to position the lines (not heard of the tab key?) and those endearing, but useless, trailing space-slashes at the end of the tags: Continue reading →