The quickest way into Wordpress when you're locked out.

I love Wordpress as a platform for building sites.

But no matter how many times I see it, I don't think I'll ever get used to having this snippet available to me if I get locked out of a Wordpress install :

Surely it shouldn't be that easy to get root on a Wordpress site?

Ladies and gentlemen, this is why you should always sequester access on a database, so each app has it's own db user. If a charmless bad guy DOES gain access, they can only reck one Wordpress site database, not all of them.