There's always https://textpattern.com/ which is also as old as Wordpress (older?) and better coded. (See also thttps://textpattern.org/ ).
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It stores plugins as strings in the database, then pulls those strings back and evals them as PHP on requests.
"Better coded" is very much a subjective assessment.
Thank you very much for sharing your research results!
I really appreciate your work and even more that you took time and risk exposing your findings, I wish more people did this.