I don't understand where Wordpress hatred comes from. If my primary goal is a writing platform that allows me to concentrate on the content of the blog rather then blog technicalities, wordpress is fine..

I see a lot more "skepticism" than outright hatred.

There's been a few not-so-cool security problems, that's what I usually hear from people being turned off. Plus the amount of really bad plugins...

My only personal gripes are that it's not fun to develop themes and plugins, so I stopped using it years ago for my main website. Still using it though.