Got suckered into helping a non-profit with their web presence, and of course, it was a Wordpress site (at least it wasn’t a Facebook page).
Everything about WP is mildly infuriating at best, just regular infuriating at worst. Everything. If you know, you know. It’s like they tried so hard to make it “easy” to use that it went full circle into a fuster-cluck of unintuitive and clunky everything.
With every facet of the experience being an upsell, is there a tier where it’s just not horrible to use?
Wordpress.com sites are trash.
Wordpress as a CMS otherwise is fine.
Yes, you need to use Oxygen Builder, Divi, or Elementor to WYSIWYG effectively.
Yes you need to have daily backups and a security tool like Wordfence or WPMUDev’s Defender.
But it works, its easy to build and migrate, it integrates with everything you want it to, and the content creation and management is super simple for an end user to manage. You can also get support for it from everywhere and anywhere at this point.
Reality: Everything sucks and you have to adapt and adjust to bullshit on any and every CMS you work with.