[luckylion]

Yeah, certainly, but that's what I meant to address by making your framework's backend look & feel like WP and adding e.g. shortcodes to it and having a media library that works the same way (but doesn't suffer from WP's clunky bolted-on attachment).

Gutenberg isn't a thing for the folks I work with, nobody there likes freedom (freedom only leads to errors!), everything is form-based (ACF is slow but it works, and here, too, it's not users setting up the fields, it's developers) with a few shortcodes to pull in special elements.

I'm not complaining, I like building tools and solving problems and using WP allows for plenty of both, but in hindsight WP is slowing us down, I believe. Of course, it's hard to predict the scale of things when you start, so having something you can quickly iterate with is useful.