The CMS landscape has split into two camps: traditional (WordPress, Drupal) and headless (Sanity, Strapi, Contentful). Both have strong advocates, and both have legitimate use cases.
Traditional CMS wins when: your team already knows WordPress, your site is primarily content (blog, news, portfolio), you need an extensive plugin ecosystem, and your budget is tight. WordPress is battle-tested, widely supported, and has the largest developer community in Mohali.
Headless CMS wins when: you need the same content on web, mobile, and third-party platforms, your frontend requires modern framework features (Next.js, React), you want developer-defined content schemas, or you need superior performance (no PHP rendering overhead).
The hybrid approach — using WordPress as a headless CMS with a Next.js frontend — gives you WordPress's familiar editing experience with modern frontend performance. This is increasingly popular with our clients who have non-technical content teams.
Our default recommendation for new projects: Sanity for developer teams, WordPress (headless or traditional) for non-technical teams. For enterprise, Contentful. The decision should be driven by who will manage the content daily.