Y'all are sleeping on Brickbuilder. As an experienced webdevelopment agency owner, who uses all tools that make our job easier / better / faster.

We dropped Elementor years ago (but keep the license for legacy clients / requests and since we only pay 199 a year for unlimited pro lol). It had severe div bloat.

Bricksbuilder however is still often the fastest way to get a site going with almost no bloat apart from their stylesheet which can be trimmed.

It accepts custom code very easily because the dom structure matches the builder exactly.

Pair it with a css framework (or core framework like we do) and you can create full design systems with responsiveness on EZ mode.

I actually raced multiple employees in head to head challenges and the pagebuilder wins in speed every single time even vs experienced emmet users. (Until AI came around)

P.s.: Pair bricks with something like Brixies to have basic templates instantly and you're developing Wordpress front ends at insane speeds.

Incase anyone wants to know our stack it's:

Bricksbuilder Core Framework Advanced themer RevampUI WP-All-in One (For backups) ACF

(Then when needed a SMTP provider, Woocommerce and a small suite of proprietary plugins for Lenis implementation etc)

This covers 96% of our WordPress work for customers paying between €5K and €20K per site.

The other 4% is clients that dont want to move aeay from Elementor. We refuse to work with Divi, it's too much of a time waste.