The biggest advantage to Wordpress, from an enterprise perspective, is the huge ecosystem.
Tons of other people use it, which means tons of other people are beta-testing it for you. The WP community runs a competent security program that issues patched regularly.
And tons of people know it inside and out. That makes it easier to hire strong staff, get competitive rates and performance from vendors, and find expert help for hosting, devops, performance tuning, security, etc.
Drupal had all this as well but, sadly, it’s all shrinking. In retrospect D7 was the high point and although they tried to “get off the island” with the massive changes in D8, all they really did was drive away a bunch of believers, while mostly failing to attract new fans.
There’s a level of information architecture complexity where Wordpress starts to suck and Drupal is great. Thanks to changes in WP and Drupal over the past decade, that level has moved way up. Wordpress can do a lot of stuff that D7 could, and D10 can do a lot of even more powerful stuff that few websites actually need.
Drupal has a huge ecosystem too, and it's truly open source and built on a solid extensible framework (Symfony). D10 is a completely different beast to D7 .. and actual uses good development practices.
Is WordPress closer technically to the bad days of D7?
The WordPress ecosystem spans the gamut from my-first-site through to massive enterprises, so you’d have to expect that many sites you see are in the long-tail. At the higher end, it’s no different to any professional software ecosystem.
There’s also varied ecosystems within WordPress, as it’s large enough to support many. For example, the DAM integration cited in the article isn’t something you’ll find on many sites, since it’s an enterprise use case; we don’t even list it on the official plugin directory at all. Plugins and libraries used on enterprise sites are basically a separate ecosystem unto themselves.
(I manage the team that maintains said DAM plugin.)
Because most people don’t know how to host and maintain web software. Hence the growth of fully hosted platforms like Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, Shopify, Etsy, etc.
That’s not really relevant to how enterprises decide on web content management software, though.
Tons of other people use it, which means tons of other people are beta-testing it for you. The WP community runs a competent security program that issues patched regularly.
And tons of people know it inside and out. That makes it easier to hire strong staff, get competitive rates and performance from vendors, and find expert help for hosting, devops, performance tuning, security, etc.
Drupal had all this as well but, sadly, it’s all shrinking. In retrospect D7 was the high point and although they tried to “get off the island” with the massive changes in D8, all they really did was drive away a bunch of believers, while mostly failing to attract new fans.
There’s a level of information architecture complexity where Wordpress starts to suck and Drupal is great. Thanks to changes in WP and Drupal over the past decade, that level has moved way up. Wordpress can do a lot of stuff that D7 could, and D10 can do a lot of even more powerful stuff that few websites actually need.