Of course WP market share is declining. The reason is obvious – wysiwyg “full site” builders are a failure. All of them. Gutenberg, Elementor, Divi. They all suck because the idea behind them is flawed. WordPress has turned into Microsoft FrontPage. Everything old is new again. Now we get to learn all over again why content and layout should be kept separate. Yay.

In the meantime everyone will continue being frustrated with these tools.

Clients, etc, end up hating wysiwyg builders because they won’t take the time to learn to use the tools effectively, and end up destroying their site.

Developers become frustrated with wysiwyg builders because they make everything 10 times harder than it needs to be. Before what I could do with a few a few templates, and well thought out CPT’s , now I have to go in to the bloated backend and click a bunch of buttons like some kind of savage. Don’t even get me started on trying to test and stage this crap. I’ve come to loath wordpress development and dread taking on new wordpress projects. I suspect I am not alone…

The only people who actually do like wysiwyg builders are those who get paid to fix up the mess that eventually gets made from these tools.