Comment by overfeed
2 days ago
> I'm not sure if you've tried to use Wordpress for a simple site. I did recently and it was a horrendous experience.
As someone who made a number of bespoke backends, WordPress wins on turnkey host-support, ease of content-authorship, familiarity (when handing over or taking over a backend), and breadth and depth of plugins. A lot of people would be well-served by static-site generators, and those were on the rise for a bit. WordPress stays winning because of the user-friendliness of its publishing workflows (vs SSGs), and self-reinforcing ecosystem.
I hear the words you're saying. But this was not the case for myself setting up Wordpress and trying to help a non-technical user navigate the admin dashboard to manage their content.