Alarming Drop off on favourite software results

Two pieces of kit I use are starting to wane dramatically.
The first is Wordpress. Amazingly, since May 2010 I've started to see better results from Blogger (essp in Google, but as Blogger IS google, maybe that's not so suprising)

I have over 150 wordpress installations and update between 5 and 10 a week (either complete updates, scrap and add new, or just add content)

My thoughts on this are that WP has (sadly) become synonymous for spam marketing sites. Pages of gibberish with adverts in it. To the stage where the CMS itself is starting to become affected by it.

I have been using WP since 2006, and this decline in rank, linkstickyness, and everything else is very recent. (May/June 2010)

I have around 40 blogger sites as well. In the same time period they have improved quite dramatically. Many have had no new content added for months, yet have risen quite sharply in rank and traffic numbers.

However, I can't be 100% sure, becasue the main tool I have used up to that point has recently also started to decline quite sharply.

SENuke's link stickness has plumetted. Forum posts in particular are routinely deleted. I spend a lot of time making good comments. 100 words plus, nested spinning etc.
I believe this is due to the very limited number of places Nuke allows you to post, and the fact that these places are now massive "spam" palaces.

If you check the PR ratings of these forums, they are starting to go both page by page - and even the main forum URL. Is this suprising?

It shouldn't be, the very number of trash posts Nuke has put in such a small number of sites is bound to have an effect over time.
Since May 2010 the stickyness of posts from nuke has dropped so dramatically that I have cancelled my subs and moved on.

Nuke's feature set is very impressive - but the DEPTH of each feature is no longer sufficient for proper IM (for me at least)

Keyword tool - Whilst once "just" good enough, is now rather poor, Most IM's claim to use Samurai, MNF or both instead, pretty much making Nuke's own keyword tool redundant.

Account Creator - Has bugs for certain sites that remain for several days, sometimes weeks. It doesn't help that it's the better sites that fail most often (I believe they change the sign up and posting procedure slightly in a deliberate ploy to put off auto account generation and posting software - the better sites do this more often than the lower PR sites, thus causing Nuke to fail more often)

Number of accounts - Relatively low. Dozens of forums rather than thousands - and as mentioned above, the ranking of these "spam disposal" sites is starting to drop precisely BECAUSE they are so overused.

Likewise for video and RSS. The video submission is barely more than Tubemogul (free) and free RSS submission tools (I have free RSS submission tools with all the URL's Nuke submits to and HUNDREDS more - many better than Nuke's standard list)

Tellingly this is all legitimate FREE software (I'm not on about hacked, pirated software, I 'm talking genuine freeware)

Nuke's Article Spinner - On a par with $19 download spinners. Nuke adds the feature to integrate Best Article Spinner. A telling inictment that it's own spinning tools are pretty poor

Link stickyness and resulting traffic - Since spring this year there really has been a huge drop off.

If I was talking about 1 or 2 sites, then the sample size would be too small to really comment.
But I'm not, I'm talking about hundreds of sites, and doing direct comparisons between;

Wordpress and Blogger
Nuke and A.N.other much cheaper sbmitter and some stand alone tools.

For my money, both Wordpress and Nuke need a huge injection of features - but in Nukes case DEPTH.

A wide feature set with shallow results is not really good enough.
Offering a lot, but doing most things not particularly well when compared with your competition.
Keyword tool inferior to MNF and Samurai (and others)
Spinning inferior to BAS
Both the above are one off payments for a year - or for life - for the same as - or less than one months nuke.
Link sites far fewer than Magic Submitter, and less even than Bully or XGen
MS has the massive advantage of being user upgradeable (a real killer feature - if you want to add a load of sites to your auto sumission rotation - it just takes minutes to do - likewise you can fix broken sites yourself within seconds with the built in sign up and submit bot)

I'm informed that NukeX will cost more than Nuke (Nuke is $129 pm - what's more? $149+) who knows?

Now before I get flamed by Nuke owners (which I was myself for over 18 months). I understand Nuke will (in the right hands) pay for itself. I realise it's not massively expensive (though is now about the most expensive stand alone SEO product on the market) and some will be more than happy with the results they are obtaining.

I measure pre-traffic link building in "good links built per hour of my time"
So while Nuke can automate a whole process quite quickly, and give the feeling of "job done" a little quicker than stand alone products -
in terms of the good links built in the time you have spent on it - for me - it seems to be falling behind rapidly.

Interested to hear what others think, and about the decline of WP as a CMS.

Scritty