You mean there aren't already 20 unfinished projects reimplementing Wordpress in Rust?

Not yet there aren't. Perhaps we should form a committee to start a few and ensure that none of them actually have thr critical mass go succeed!

There's no need. Most "rewrite in Rust" projects implement some basic functionality and miss the other 90%, get posted here for self promotion and then get abandoned don't they?

This is the right time. Strike while the iron is hot. People are angry and concerned. Someone just needs to come forward with an attractive way to capitalize on the situation.

But the problem is that if Wordpress disappears overnight, you're left with a sea of alternatives that's 100x larger than when Wordpress rose to popularity.

Ex-Wordpress users are just going to diffuse into all the other decent options that already exist. Or stick with a Wordpress fork that caters to them. Though note that Wordpress isn't going away. How many Wordpress users even know who Mullenweg is?

The idea of cobbling together yet another blog platform that will somehow capture these users better than Wordpress plus all the decent incumbents is some good ol fashioned developer hubris. :P

There are many examples of an entrenched incumbent being displaced by a new killer app. All it takes is the right new features and perhaps a path from the old to the new.

And honestly WP is a great product. No other CMS managed to get so much community around, so many plugins etc

Right timing absolutely, but there was also great product sense there

Drupal feels like it's a bureaucrats paradise. Other CMSs never got there neither