If you have spent any time around web people, you have probably heard a developer groan about WordPress. Let me translate that groan into something useful for a business owner, because it is almost never about what it sounds like.
The honest why
I have been a developer and business owner since 2006, and I will be straight with you: my grievance with WordPress has never been that it is inefficient. It is a genuinely smart, capable platform when it is used properly. The frustration is about the culture around it, and about cleaning up the mess it tends to attract.
Here is the real problem. WordPress became so easy to get into that anyone with a computer, an internet connection, and a few how-to videos now believes they are a web developer. They grab a cheap shared hosting plan, stack up a pile of plugins, and produce a shell of a website riddled with conflicts, without understanding the code or web compliance underneath. Cleaning that up is where the headaches, and the "hate," come from.
So, is it right for you?
Usually, yes. WordPress is intelligent and practical with a huge range of legitimate uses when it is built and maintained the right way. The thing to be careful about is not the platform, it is who stands behind it. Knowing how to click around WordPress and log into a hosting panel does not make someone a developer. So the honest answer is this: WordPress is very likely fine for your business. Choose the person building it as carefully as you choose the platform, and you will avoid the mess this whole reputation was built on.
Developer's advice
Whoever builds your site, ask them straight: who owns the hosting and the domain, me or you? The answer separates a real partner from someone quietly holding your business hostage. Make sure it is always you.