Every tried modifying wordpress code ?

After I had an inital look I have been put off. Unfortunatly today work has forced me to get into the guts of wordpress and this stuff is grotesque !

Here is a sample of some code: http://devpipe.pastebin.com/f42a541d2

Please digg / comment if you agree that wordpress is such a messy piece of work it needs a compete ground up re-write and some kind of templating engine used to cut out all this embedded inline php shit.

This thing needs binning a proper application where code is separate from content written.