A while ago I swapped my blog to BlogEngine.NET, then to MiniBlog, then to Ghost, then back to MiniBlog. Now I’m going back to WordPress again after a decade or so. The other platforms were nice, and some were integrated well, but nobody has kept them up, or they were just side demo projects for people. At this point I wanted a platform that I can host that is relatively stable and is maintained actively. Some of the newer features are nice too.
Same here. At first I used BlogEngine.net exclusively, but when I needed more features I tried lots of other packages. I tried Joomla, and Drupal most of the time, with a short foray into Hexo. I even wrote a few simple sites from the ground up in C#/ASP.Net and lately Python/Flask. I consistently resisted WordPress mostly because I hate PHP.
I am not a “web developer”, I am a software architect. My experience lies mostly in the application back-end and a smattering of kernel-mode device drivers; but over time I ended up deploying a number of websites for myself, my employers and a few friends. WordPress does everything I need and it does it well, if I can treat it like a black box and not think about the abomination of PHP running under the hood.