The great irony is they still sport their "Code is Poetry" mantra on their website [0].
If code is poetry, Wordpress is a new genre of it, probably?
If code is poetry, WordPress was written by William McGonagall <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGonagall>.
They could just go a bit more honest and migrate to "Code is pasta". WP is also closer to a pizza slice than Michelin star fine dining experience.
They never said it was good poetry
Ask an old English teacher whether "poetry" implies anything favorable about quality.
Vogon Poetry [1]?
[1] https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Vogon_poetry