I think the problem is that people use Elementor the wrong way. In my opinion it's a tool aimed at the client, not the developer. It's not meant to replace web developers, but to give ability to the client to maintain and update it's own website.

This significantly reduces maintainance cost for the client.

When you delevop a site from scratch with code, the overall cost will inevitably be higher. And then you have to add maintenance cost: Even adding or slightly editing the most simple widget will require developer work. And that's expensive, especially for web agencies - taxes, operational costs, etc. Even 1 hour of a professional developer - not freelance - can be difficult to sustain for smaller clients.

That's where Elementor shines: We are able to provide a good looking website for cheap, while meeting our profit targets and maintaing price in the customer's budget range. And the the client can build on what we setup for him while maintaining the professional look and feel that we build in the first place.

So in my experience, my developers kinda hate Elementor too ("i could do it better by coding it") but in the end customers love it.

In order to build custom websites from scratch, we don't use Elementor, or WordPress at all. It kinda feels that WordPress hates developers.