In reply to richard Ginn.

True. We work with web designers a lot who often use tools like Beaver, Bakery and Elementor. We add in their shopping carts, sort out hosting, email, security, speed and ranking problems they don't understand and have no interest it. It's the old form vs function thing. Left brain, right brain etc. Everyone is happy doing what they like best. A team effort. Works well.

For many, I can see the appeal of elementor. Designers especially want a simple to use layout tool, doing one page at a time. In theory, it can mean they don't even need people like me for css or php stuff. And us geeks aren't always easy to understand. I get that. Designers and agency types only work in the visual space, prefer to still build pages one page at a time which elementor does well, as earlier designers did in tools like dreamweaver or frontpage years back and the same in Adobe software in print, years before.

But geeky, tech-driven people like me, look at using this database-driven CMS technology that drives Wordpress, quite differently. A CMS allows us to make pages more dynamic, more interactive, much more connected to other systems. We consider more how the website works, how fast it is, how well it ranks in Google, even if it makes money by examining the analytics and hosting data, not just the visuals.

Elementor I think will like go the way of the Wix platform, pandering to those who only want a pretty branding website. Those agencies and designers used to elementor, will not consider WordPress blocks. Change and using new tools, is seen as a risk they won't take. Sadly, most humans are like that... Scared of change.... The apple iphone, the notable exception to the rule.