WordPress is a great choice when it is built properly
Around 40% of the web runs on WordPress. For editorially active organisations, publishers, education, healthcare, B2B marketing teams, multi-author blogs and content-heavy ecommerce, the workflow advantages are still hard to match. The problem is what gets built on top of it. Bloated themes, page-builder dependency, plugin sprawl, no caching strategy and no security hygiene combine to produce slow, fragile sites that drag down both rankings and conversion.
A well-built WordPress site is a different animal: a lean custom theme or block-based build, an opinionated plugin stack, full-page caching with smart invalidation, image optimisation, Core Web Vitals in green, hardened security and an editorial workflow non-technical editors actually enjoy using.
Uddhavo builds WordPress sites for clients who want the platform's editorial strengths without inheriting its common weaknesses. We also build headless WordPress (WP as a backend serving a React/Next.js front-end) where the use case justifies the extra architecture.