Thanks for the clarification! And yes, there is some strife between Automattic and parts of the WordPress community at times. However, the platform is still a great tool for anyone, especially beginners, to start your own website.

WordPress is open source, yes, but u never should forget to make it clear how Auttomatic, wordpress.com owner, has political influence on it. For over 15 years they have been deciding what features are developed for it, and these decisions are based on their needs for wordpress.com and not for the open source CMS community needs. They hire some core devs and use free work time from others and benefit from tests and bugfixes provided by the community. We’ve been asking for over a year that such less needed features should at least be added as plugins so that they don’t bloat the core and can be deactivated and uninstalled, and they just ignore us. They did that, while they kept plugins section on wordpress.org hidden, as if it was a legacy thing of the past.

With so many features and premises taken, WordPress isn’t as extensible as Drupal. It’s not advised to extend it in ways that would change its premisses, as u’d keep fighting them.