Comment by ramesh31

>"For each of these design problems, I eventually found a fee-free solution:"

  Sticky – WordPress 6.2 (released in March this year) adds native sticky support.
  Non-standard font – Twentig plug-in.
  Latest 3 blog posts – Team Tangible‘s Loops & Logic plug-in.
  Gallery Lightbox – dFactory‘s responsive lightbox and gallery plug-in.

And here's the problem with WordPress. That's literally 4 lines of CSS and two lines of PHP, for which the author has now exposed themselves to four seperate third party plugin developers that he must trust explicitly forever.