WP is just very famous so clients often require it and know it. I don't think it has ever been choice developers would go for if they didn't have to. But other

WP is just very famous so clients often require it and know it. I don't think it has ever been choice developers would go for if they didn't have to. But other newer crop of CMSes - Craft, Ghost, Kirby, Twill, October, Grav... they don't have the legacy baggage and are just so much better for fully custom made sites. You basically get light web framework with super customisable admin. On the other hand for the "quick marketing site builder" - WP is getting eaten by Webflow and also Wix and their new new builder. Last nail to the coffin is that WP has become big target of hackers and its just hustle to keep it going compared to most other self hosted solutions. I don't think its websites going away so much as it's WP loosing to alternatives.