This in a nutshell is why Visual Basic 6 eventually failed. It worked for your use case until it didn't. And of course a programmer could dive into COM and ActiveX to extend it, but avoiding that mess was why people chose VB6 to begin with.
I feel the same way about WordPress. If you stick to it's sweet-spot as a solution, it's ... good enough and cheap. But too many folks have this hammer called WordPress and see a world full of nails.
