The context for this article is the publishing of recent views by Henrik Luehrsen, Joost de Valk, and others who are pointing out that WordPress needs to modernize its Core and deal with its technical debt. In this context, they advocate for making greater use of canonical plugins, which project co-founder Matt Mullenweg supports. The general consensus is that WordPress seems to have lost its way under Mullenweg’s leadership, and needs to establish a roadmap for the Core software that restores its earlier value on simplicity. In this article, I affirm greater use of canonical…