If I remember correctly, TextPattern was done correctly compared to WordPress. Unfortunately, that meant it was more complex for most developers to go deeper. The community flocked to WordPress, and every other one became more of a niche.

Didn't they also have a Markdown-ish writing style? I liked that, and I used it as a plugin for WordPress for a very long time.

TextPatten went slow and now seems to have been chugging along well.