I don't like wordpress particularly - but I'll have to use what I can. What I don't like about it - is that for every gaming site I want to launch, I'm stuck with "one size fits all" skins... and not... gaming skins. *sigh*
I can't ditch wordpress because I need to present my niche blogs as a magazine/blog in order to be recognized as a news site - otherwise I'd have my hand slapped by community-driven submission sites like N4G which has recently allowed forum sites on blogging extentions like Extra Portal, but that'll cost me more to launch.