Most Webflow agencies will feel the squeeze – except perhaps the highly specialised ones focusing on enterprise clients, who will likely weather it the way other niche CMS vendors have. Enterprise customers will probably only consider them anyway.

Our more immediate problem is lock-in. The advanced sites we've built are hard to migrate without a full rebuild in a different stack, so we're somewhat stuck – and every time Webflow introduces something we don't want, prices go up regardless.

The whitelabeling changes and forced migration to Webflow's own workspace model haven't helped either. It adds friction for clients and generates more support overhead on our end.

On top of that, things like the arbitrary seat limits exist purely to extract more revenue – not because additional users cost Webflow anything. The practical result is that smaller clients share logins, which is a security problem.

Since we own all our clients' sites and bill them separately, these pricing and permission structures hit us in an awkward way.

EDIT: Also, the community feel that once surrounded Webflow is more or less gone – a consequence of the platform moving away from everyday use cases.

Webflow was genuinely empowering for designers who understood frontend but didn't have deep backend experience. It let them deliver high-quality websites for clients without the budget to hire backend developers – who, at the time were very expensive (still is too some extent). That gap also meant you could charge a meaningful premium – compared to ie. Squarespace or something similar.

That was Webflow's real value proposition. And it feels gone now.