Wordpress was never really the competition for you if those are your needs. Here's what wordpress does that most CMS's either don't do well, or cost money to do:
- Have a user friendly administration section that anyone can use regardless of technical expertise (by user friendly, I mean have WYSIWYG editor for all posts and make it extremely simple to manage content via a UI -- not CLI)
- Have roles for users with restrictable access
- Have a plugin ecosystem that allow just about any customization to be easy enough to implement that paying a freelancer to do so is quite affordable
- Have an entire theming eco-system that is very alive, with plenty of free or paid options to make a site look professional
- Have a user friendly administration section that anyone can use regardless of technical expertise (by user friendly, I mean have WYSIWYG editor for all posts and make it extremely simple to manage content via a UI -- not CLI)
- Have roles for users with restrictable access
- Have a plugin ecosystem that allow just about any customization to be easy enough to implement that paying a freelancer to do so is quite affordable
- Have an entire theming eco-system that is very alive, with plenty of free or paid options to make a site look professional