I am tired of fighting my current CMS theme
I am currently working on a site that has completely outgrown its initial template and I am starting to feel like I spend more hours fighting the styling constraints than actually improving the user experience for my customers. It feels like every time I try to add a simple feature or fix a layout issue the theme breaks something else and the performance starts to tank. I am exhausted by the limitations of these bloated themes because they seem to be packed with hundreds of features that I never use while making it impossible to write clean and efficient code.
I am seriously considering moving to a fully custom frontend build just to get total control over the performance and the design. I worry about the initial development time but I am honestly fed up with hacking together CSS overrides just to stop the site from looking broken on mobile devices. Has anyone else made this switch recently to get away from these heavy templates and was the effort to build something from the ground up actually worth it for the long term performance?