WordPress.org is just a vector to sell Jetpack and WordPress.com at this point.
In the past decade they could have easily fixed a lot of key pains in WordPress, but on one side there are a bunch of amateurs WP users who just don't care and on the other, if they fix obvious security and performance issues, they can't sell "managed WordPress" that easily.
How hard is it to add a "staticize WordPress" toggle? Log in, WP is dynamic; log out, PHP stuff is rendered unexecutable. If WP had a native "static" mode, plugin authors would have to figure out a way to support it well in most cases.
In the past decade they could have easily fixed a lot of key pains in WordPress, but on one side there are a bunch of amateurs WP users who just don't care and on the other, if they fix obvious security and performance issues, they can't sell "managed WordPress" that easily.
How hard is it to add a "staticize WordPress" toggle? Log in, WP is dynamic; log out, PHP stuff is rendered unexecutable. If WP had a native "static" mode, plugin authors would have to figure out a way to support it well in most cases.