[garethsprice]

It's simple, non-tech admin staff are familiar with the interface (and can be easily trained), there's a vast ecosystem of plugins and integrations for it, it's easy to hire people or teams who have experience working with it. WP has its flaws and an upper limit to what it's capable of, but it's often a very pragmatic choice for small to medium sized content-driven websites.

[lj3]

I hear this a lot, but I've found it to be untrue. When I used to do wordpress development, a large part of my job was to customize admin pages so the non-tech staff could actually use it. The default wordpress admin interface leaves a lot to be desired.

[jameskanestl]

Sure, but the admin customizations are pretty damn simple once you figure out the few commands you need (registering custom post types, adding & customizing options pages, removing unnecessary tabs per user role, etc). The fact is, it has the market share, so neophytes are at least somewhat familiar with the interface. That is a true advantage.

Also, ACF Pro is your best friend in the CMS customization area & it easily dumps custom fields into the WP REST API for use in app frontends like ngx or React. I'm working on an app & CMS with this stack now and frankly, it's fantastic.

[dangerface]

(registering custom post types, adding & customizing options pages, removing unnecessary tabs per user role, etc)

Thats my point you don't need to do any of that with a CMS it just works out of the box. People may be familiar with the admin interface but that doesn't mean its good, just that they havent seen anything better, if the admin interface is as good as something like perch you wont have to train the clients (we do anyway) its all just intuitive.

I cant reply to your other comment but I do still have to work with wordpress and I also use ACF Pro, it sucks so many plugins made by third party developers who have went bust and left me to maintain their garbage code.

As for alternatives I use and recomend https://grabaperch.com/