Data from Google Trends noted search requests around the website builder boomed in October 2024, especially on October 8, where it reached a peak score of 100.
The spike in interest signals a shift in user behavior, indicating an active search for options which align more closely with user expectations around performance, control, and transparency.
There’s a fork of Wordpress which still has the old editor, which looks fine to me. I don’t know anything about the people behind it though, and haven’t yet tried it myself.
A block editor being built into wordpress was inevitable and long overdue in fact, and they let elementor steal most of them market while they shuffled their feet on the issue
https://www.classicpress.net/
It’s pretty solid.