To some degree, yes. Every tool you can think of that allows you to create a website is going to have some kind of limitation. The biggest question you can ask then is whether the tool you plan to use limits you in beneficial ways or in negative ways. Content Management Systems like WordPress are built around the concept content is king wherein the focus of your website is primarily on the content you create and the structure of your website. Beneficially, this is also how search engine algorithms work: the better the content and structure, the better your website ranks. Other website building tools very often aren't as good at this, typically because they allow you to put things anywhere without formal structure. WordPress is also built to be infinitely expandable. This means you can find a plugin to do just about anything you can think of (many of them free!) And if you can't find such a plugin, you can have a WordPress developer build literally anything you might want; this is not true of closed system website builder tools. With that much power comes inevitable complexity and a certain amount of rigidity in the way your website is designed. WordPress and most of its plugin ecosystem (especially the ones we recommend in this guide) generally work to obey standard web design principles, like using the WordPress Theme Customizer functionality to define global styles that apply throughout your website, and using single-page overrides only when a style needs to apply on that one page. Many website building tools don't force this behaviour, instead requiring that you apply the styles you want to every single header and every single block of text. This methodology is both poor coding practice and makes more work for you later on as you add more pages and content to the website. In conclusion: yes, there is a bit of a learning curve, however once you better understand the principles of creating a website with WordPress, you'll begin to understand why it behaves this way and the benefits it provides you long-term.