Isn't this an almost perfect description of WordPress? It hasn't seemed to have done any harm if that's the case.
> But it’s old and even the founder abandoned it long ago around 2012.
Are you sure? On drupal.org right now one of the main links is one of the founders in a keynote video presenting the newest version.
Dries is still using Drupal. Here is his personal blog, where he discusses updating to Drupal 11: https://dri.es/drupal-11-released
Dries is the founder of Acquia, whose products are all based on or related to running Drupal websites.
Dries was the keynote speaker at DrupalCon Barcelona last month, where he discussed the new features currently under development in Drupal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wce6FkNN2Io
> It was also a nightmare upgrading the versions of it.
This was an issue prior to version 8. All major versions since then have been directly upgradable. It usually takes me 2-3 hours to do a major version upgrade. Maybe a few more if there's a lot of custom code.
people use it because they didn’t learn anything else and It still has hype from those early days (2005-2009).
It was also a nightmare upgrading the versions of it. It faded out of popularity with most people for a reason.
There are better options today and even 10 years ago and not just Wordpress.