I've been meaning to rip out the terrible "wordpress framework" from underneath my blog so that it doesn't suck when 20 people try to read it at once.

You've been meaning to: but you have other things to do.

It's all about the economics and tradeoffs of different choices, in the end. Sometimes a framework is a good tradeoff, sometimes it isn't, and it depends entirely on the particular set of details involved in any given situation.

The fact that I have not taken out the wordpress framework yet (because I've been busy with other "more important" things to do) doesn't mean that NOT doing so is somehow justifiable.