Choose a website platform from editing needs, structured data, workflows, integrations, deployment, maintenance tolerance, ownership, and future growth rather than familiarity or trend.
Choose WordPress when its content-management workflow and ecosystem match the site's needs, and consider simpler or custom architecture when those requirements point elsewhere.
The choice between a website builder and a web developer should come from the business requirement, maintenance capacity, ownership needs, and portability rather than prestige or the idea that one approach is always better.