So after deciding to rebuild a website that was running J3 to J4, I thought I'd jump on the latest-tech train and build this website with SPB4.

Usability.

1. The amount of clicks required to do anything is crazy.
2. What's more annoying is that while you can customise certain things, it's far, far from intuitive. When I'm clicking addons, I need to click over and over and over, to get to the same bits, because the editor insits on these tiny little windows.
3. I can't seem to enter the html editor mode. That's really important when I want to create very custom attributes, such as UTLs.

Bugs (I've gone with the Helix Ultimate template:

1. Row Containers seem to be hit and miss. Some of them are inserted as divs, others as sections and there's no consistency with the widths. While Helix uses "container" classes, page builder insists using it's proprietary "sppb-x-container" classes, meaning double code overheads for no reason, but also multiple places requiring modification if you want to have a wider than normal window frame (for super large screens).

2. You've introduced more viewports, which seems great at firsst, but a) You only have tablet and mobile column options. b) I assume you use min-width operators, instead of max-width operators, so I have to literally re-key values over and over and over, because they do not automatically flow down viewports. c) The containers used don't even have sufficient padding - no idea why, but they're pretty much hugging the screen edges (max 15px or so) - this wasn't how it worked before.

3. The front-end editor is poor, I disliked using it before because it was super finecky and now it's worse. To get to edit a page needs a huge amount of unnecessary clicks and extra tabs opened, and I've no idea why.

Now, I don't know if this is because of me using Helix Ultimate, but so far the experience sucks terribly and when time costs money, this is clearly silly.

The above said, I have yet to try edit page builder-powered modules and articles, so I have no comments relating to those, yet. While Google penalises excessive page loads, this feels to be going in the opposite direction.

I've been a dev subscriber for probably around 5 years, but right now, sadly, even Wix is looking a better option.