WordPress and WooCommerce

The real risk is the plugins

WordPress itself is a stable system. What makes a WooCommerce site fragile is almost always a build-up of plugins, sometimes poorly maintained, that interact badly with each other or with a core update. Before adding a new extension, I check whether the need can be covered another way, or whether a plugin already in place has a redundant feature.

Block-based page builders make visual layout easier, but also add a further layer of code to maintain. I work with what's already in place, without forcing a tool change unless a concrete problem justifies it.