In reply to Sascha P..

I appreciate your point of view here. As a developer, I've never used WordPress without adding my own code.

The Gutenberg project is making inroads with the editor/front-end disconnect you're experiencing, especially with the 5.8 release and coalescing around theme.json as a standard approach to theming. Before this, it was exclusively up to the theme developer on how to handle styling in the editor vs the front-end. While this is still mostly the case in practice, I expect to start seeing a more consistent user experience with regards to that back-end/front-end disconnect.

WordPress is powering over 40% of the web because of its flexibility and extensibility, which is a double-edged sword. It does empower people to put up their own websites fairly easily, but that doesn't mean that you can "design" it to look exactly the way you want without coding or a page builder. Gutenberg is eroding that distinction, but it will take a while if we want to do it well.

Storyblok is hardly competing in the same space. It's a headless CMS, meaning you'd have to know how to code to build the front-end yourself or have someone else build it. It really is apples to oranges.