Read this so you can get clued in, jshakes: http://wpengine.com/2013/03/alex-king-on-the-maturity-of-wor...

See some of the real world issues, not programmer-level gripes you bring up. Which BTW show your lack of creativity in solving problems through thinking outside of the box.

I'll give you an example:

If you don't like get_permalink(), make yourself a get_the_permalink() { return get_permalink(); }