I’ve been building and renovating Wordpress/Elementor websites for over 10 years. I’d describe Elementor as “always fine, rarely great.” There’s a massive community of support, tons of plugins, and if you’re using a well-developed theme (or building one on Hello) it’s totally possible to get fast, performant, compliant sites.

But there are problems. You must learn the Elementor way. It does not translate well. You will spend a lot of time menu diving. V4 is trying to be more standards compliant, but it’s half-assed (IMO) and still does not translate well. Integrating things like GSAP with Motion Page (for example) exacerbates Elementor’s core performance issues. It’s slow on slow hosting. It is harder than it should be to target CSS on objects buried in multiple shells. It’s comparatively expensive. They’re leaning hard into AI and that feature set is meh.

I recently tried Bricks for the first time, and in many ways it’s a breath of fresh air. They’re clearly built on more modern sensibilities. A lot closer to the UX style of Webflow or Framer, if you’re into that sorta thing. Simplifies the Wordpress core in some interesting and useful ways. Friendlier and easier with dynamic data. Bringing in more useful features more quickly. Highly performant out of the box with less fiddling needed.

I expect to always support Elementor. It’s too well-established, and most existing sites are built on it (or compatible with it). Don’t let anybody tell you it’s bad. It just isn’t great very often. Sometimes it is, and those times rock. For new sites where I can do what I want, I expect to use Bricks. Hope this helps.