Mainly I was focussed on risk. I work on two WP sites, both of which lag head and both of which are major PITA to upgrade and maintain, and both of which are targetted continuously by whitehat (I hope) tasters looking for holes.
If you were looking to close out those problems, you'd move to a platform which was coded more safely and I very much doubt it would be PHP.
I don't know what it would be. Maybe something targeting node.js but with type safety in front of a compile phase? (to get similar platform independence that PHP brings)
Or, a static site re-publisher which took a PHP master and committed out the door faster to render, safe pageviews.
If you were looking to close out those problems, you'd move to a platform which was coded more safely and I very much doubt it would be PHP.
I don't know what it would be. Maybe something targeting node.js but with type safety in front of a compile phase? (to get similar platform independence that PHP brings)
Or, a static site re-publisher which took a PHP master and committed out the door faster to render, safe pageviews.