Joost is right  Joost is right. And this is not a pure WordPress debate you're looking for. I see a lot of "customer needs" debate around it. You can code a dashboard with TinyMCE for customers, if they are actively using blog, etc. Sync with GitHub, sell as a service. That's it. I'm not a coder and many of you know better solutions. I don't even tell Webflow, Framer, etc. They are also giants. There is always a pie for everyone. WordPress isn't dying but it needs much more development and flexible solutions in the core. I'm using WordPress since the version 2.6. I made money with building WordPress (Envato, Themeforest, etc) I left WordPress beginning of this year. I don't want to set up a custom CDN for performance, I don't want to check compatibility for every version of core with the installed 20+ plugins. Maybe I return WP in the future, but not now. I was tired of disconnections, UI bugs in the editor, Elementor's 3000+ of lines class names (yes, they had an update for this) For my case, sometimes it's okay to make a break.  [Joost de Valk](https://twitter.com/jdevalk) [@jdevalk](https://twitter.com/jdevalk) I built Yoast SEO. I ran my blog on WordPress for years. Then yesterday I moved it to static HTML. Everything that matters, SEO, search, schema, is still there. What I dropped was the overhead. Do you actually need a CMS? For quite some sites: no. [joost.blog/do-you-need-a-…](https://joost.blog/do-you-need-a-cms/) [Posted Mar 21, 2026 at 12:05PM](https://twitter.com/jdevalk/status/2035326856103121278), Joost is right, Metehan Yesilyurt, 01kme5knqryj59hcc7wczwtn7t.