Getting fed up with WordPress

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WordPress is the best blogging platform that I know, but it seems as if it's starting to suffer from a serious Web 2.0 infection. The dashboard (admin), that is. Today I ran into a problem again which prevented me from completing a post on my blog, so I wrote this instead:

My main concern is the excessive use of JavaScript (especially AJAX). Basic things just seem to break when they shouldn't have to .

A few versions earlier, some people (the ones on Hardened PHP server, like us here at LLP) had problems with WordPress' implementation of AJAX. Writing posts, adding categories and a whole bunch of trivial tasks resulted in a "You don't have permission to do that" error.
I wrote a plugin to work around this problem, but luckily the implementation of AJAX was changed in 2.5, which solved it for now.

Now something appears to be wrong with the embedded media uploader (the tiny little icon that gives a nice overlay upload form). This form is heavily AJAXified, even including an upload progressbar.
It looks great, but it just doesn't work. I tested it across 3 different modern browser (IE7, Fx2, Opera9) each with the latest Adobe Flash Player installed (I suppose that could make sense), but after the bar fills up the word 'Crunching...' appears. Silence, no upload, nothing.
If my upload is done, it's done. It doesn't need to be crunched, it needs to attach to my post, that's all. The only thing that needs crunching is the WP code.
It's especially frustrating because uploading doesn't have to be so complicated. A simple form and a POST request is all it takes (the iframe they used for that in previous versions worked perfectly). Clearly, the developers are taking 'Web 2.0' much too far right now.

Enough ranting though. How do the bloggers here feel about WordPress as it stands at the moment?

Edit: Why is "to" followed by "." triggering a 406 Not acceptable?
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I didn't like wordpress before they went all javascript. I simply wrote my own scripts after a while.
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