My first dev job was all WordPress stuff. The guy I worked for used the ability of clients to manage their own site as his main selling point. This was years be

My first dev job was all WordPress stuff. The guy I worked for used the ability of clients to manage their own site as his main selling point. This was years before Gutenberg, and I don't think ACF was a thing yet. I spent a lot of time building forms to manage just about everything on the site. Almost no one used any of it except for publishing blog-style content. We had one client who wanted this crazy design meant to look like a comic book splash page. Nothing was uniform or consistent. I spent weeks setting up all this bullshit so the client could customize every little thing. When I showed the client how to use it his only comment was something like "this clearly wasn't made to be easy to use." I believe "whole site editing" just isn't a good idea for most clients who hire a web developer. Anyone who wants that much control will either build it themselves or use something like Square Space.