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WordPress Now Powers Over One-Third of the Top 10 Million Sites on the Web (wordpress.org)
WordPress now powers over 1/3rd of the top 10 million sites on the web, according to W3Techs. From a blog post: Our market share has been growing steadily over the last few years, going from 29.9% just one year ago to 33.4% now. We are, of course, quite proud of these numbers! The path here has been very exciting. In 2005, we were celebrating 50,000 downloads. Six years later, in January 2011, WordPress was powering 13.1% of websites. And now, early in 2019, we are powering 33.4% of sites. Our latest release has already been downloaded close to 14 million times, and it was only released on the 21st of February.
The main point, is most websites want to be done on the CHEAP. Hiring skilled people to actually make a solid web site, even for just a public bill board, contact list, and open positions page, can cost a lot of money to be done right. Too much for most companies, so they will find a way to do it for cheap. Wordpress has name recognition, and most site can be made to look presentable without those expensive people who know what they are doing.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Have you read the WordPress code? I have, it's a steaming pile of spaghetti sauced with all the bad practices. For 15 years it's been the poster child for writing PHP badly.