WordPress vs Custom Coding Websites

WP Pros-

• A quick blog for beginners, put ads and start earning by monetizing the blog.
• Good for freelancing.
• Easy Drag and drop
• It’s a good CMS(Content management system).

Just put your content and all other things will be taken care of by WordPress. Mostly used for blogs, static websites

WP Cons-

• Everything is not free.
  For ex- some plugins and themes are not free. Sometimes the function you need requires a paid plugin.
  Some may argue that there are thousands of plugins that are free, but you have to check if they are fulfilling the use case.
• Later upgrades may have a problem
  If in later stages you have to use machine learning in the website, or API then it's better to start with custom coding ones, because who will do that in a later stage.
• You can’t be dependent on plugins, especially the free ones.
  What if the plugins break. WordPress will be like it was a free plugin, someone may have made it out of the hobby, but your whole business will collapse so be cautious about free plugins.
• Security
  It may happen, WordPress gets major bugs, causing security vulnerability.
• You never know where your data is going as the plugin takes control of your data.

So, with the use of plugins you can make a product but a not a good product.

• Not for pro customization and high technical end websites (the same is valid for all other website builders like WIX, etc. as well.)
  If your website is totally made around code, like games, etc. restrict using WordPress, it will have credibility issues when you will market your product.
  Also, you have to write the code for the gaming product so better to write for the website as well.
  Apart from games, and OTT platforms live streaming optimization requires a custom coding experience.
• Bad at resource optimization
  Plugin 1 and Plugin 2 are doing the same thing for different tasks which will increase CPU overhead.