@jalefkowit At least not for the managed hosting folks. And in that environment, it wasn't just perl/cgi (and quite a few places will still happily host it) but literally all software they weren't willing to support and manage in-house. And for literally 99% of users, that's Good Enough for $9/mo.

But, Movable Type was the straw that broke the camel's back for most managed/shared hosting environments, especially ones that didn't want to provide shell access.

@Obdurodon