As someone with probably 30+ sites built with Kirby I’d agree that it’s better than WP in many ways but it’s very developers oriented and it’s not really a replacement for WP for the average user.
And when I say developers oriented I mean it in a good way.
Entirely agree with that assessment. All my clients love the Kirby backend and as a developer it’s a pleasure to work with the system.
Documentation for first-time users could be better though. The YAML page structure took some time to wrap my head around. Also, as it’s flat-file, backups are trivial – just copy the folder or commit everything to a VCS.
And when I say developers oriented I mean it in a good way.