There's ClassicPress. But a better alternative than sticking with WP is https://textpattern.com/ (which has better and more stable codebase that is as old as WordPress).

TextPattern needs more attention and love in general! (Although to be fair, it also needs to be developed a wee bit faster.)

I’ve been a PHP dev for a long time and never seen Text Pattern. Thanks for sharing!

Reminds me of this: https://medium.com/node-js-javascript/growing-up-27d6cc8b7c5...