@Kent, you say you disagree with most of the points but you didn't actually say why? Do you disagree that Magento is a resource hog? the base themes are quite simply terrible? or that the XML template system is a joke?
I appreciate where you are coming from with your first point, the types of developers knocking out WordPress templates are rarely capable of learning Magento. However, I'm not in that category, i've worked with Zend Framework, Symfony, Django, CodeIgniter and frankly, Magento has an unusually bad developer experience, maybe one you've become accustomed to.
@Kent, you say you disagree with most of the points but you didn't actually say why? Do you disagree that Magento is a resource hog? the base themes are quite simply terrible? or that the XML template system is a joke?
I appreciate where you are coming from with your first point, the types of developers knocking out WordPress templates are rarely capable of learning Magento. However, I'm not in that category, i've worked with Zend Framework, Symfony, Django, CodeIgniter and frankly, Magento has an unusually bad developer experience, maybe one you've become accustomed to.