Wordpress is still pretty freaking phenomenal with its various page-builder plugins, huge ecosystem of templates and plugins and consultants and hosts, headless

Wordpress is still pretty freaking phenomenal with its various page-builder plugins, huge ecosystem of templates and plugins and consultants and hosts, headless-capable systems (like advanced custom fields), and ability to be deployed just about anywhere for dollars a month. If you're not a dev and don't want to pay for one, it's still one of the most flexible systems out there and one of the best bangs for the buck. If you need more customizability than Wix but don't want to learn all the bullshit that is modern web dev with its decades of baggage, Wordpress can get you very far, and help is widely available and cheap or free. IMHO its ecosystem is in much healthier shape than, say, the JS framework graveyard or even its close competitors like Drupal or its past competitors like Joomla, Moveable Type, Blogger, etc. Wordpress is alive and well, and these days, with services like Pantheon (or yes, WPEngine), hosting it and developing on it isn't so bad either. It's way more structured/documented/maintained/tested/stable than your average JS Jamstack project, for example. (And I say that as a frontend dev who purposely chose to move away from Wordpress & PHP into the React world, like you said. I love JS because frankly it's a lot more fun than Wordpress, the DX is better, and there's lot less backend stuff to worry about. But Wordpress is really amazing for what it's been able to offer the web community, and really, for most users (as opposed to devs), it's probably still the better choice. Way less fragile and bleeding-edge chasing than JS.)