I might have outdated views here but personally I think that a lot of the sites out there could benefit from having a CMS but at the same time that often won’t

I might have outdated views here but personally I think that a lot of the sites out there could benefit from having a CMS but at the same time that often won’t mean WordPress of all the options out there. For example, my blog runs on Grav and I write articles in Markdown on my local PC (more convenient than admin UI for me) and even on the server it all remains file based - it’s reasonably simple, reasonably fast and still allows for dynamic behavior at render/cache time. Compare that to the slop you get when you have a slow as fuck WP install with a crapload of plugins and the whole thing is brittle and slow and nobody has any idea how to fix it without breaking the current site. If people try applying it to every problem, that’s how you get bad attempts at building complex and bespoke ERP/CRM/e-commerce solutions in a stack that will never be easy or pleasant to work with in those domains. But surely there is a middle ground - use CMSes where they make sense, reach for other stacks when you need a more generic web app (AI or not). Or heck, use the CMS headless for some parts of the overall thing. Actually, in that regard, I also kinda love Django Admin cause you get a lot out of the box.