What you can do with WordPress is not the place to start, what WordPress can do for you is what is important. A tool should enable you to accomplish your goals, the tool should not restrict you, should not demand to be mangled, it should not slow you down due to form. So is that what WordPress is today? A lean, easy to use, non-restrictive power drill that helps you build your house? Or is it a tool which batteries has run dry and you end up using it as a hammer? The community has invented numerous addons to overload parts of WordPress, be it theme engines, routing, editors, admin areas. All ways to work around the shortcommings in WordPress. Various hacky solutions has been used to make WordPress load things faster when all it needs to do is print some text. The various hacky solutions is also not very easy to integrate together. They all exist in some sort of WordPress imposed isoloation.
**Our goal is to make WordPress be that lean easy to use tool it has the potential to be. R