Ah… digital nomads! ADHD personified 😉 You should definitely contact the police about whoever is stopping you from hand-coding your themes; that’s just not on!
Of course Astra isn’t perfect; no theme is. But your whining is worse, trust me x
Hi @technomad42
Thanks for sharing your experience — I know how frustrating it is when a workflow that used to feel smooth starts slowing you down instead. Astra has grown and added a lot of new capabilities over the years, but that doesn’t excuse situations where the interface or documentation feels disconnected or harder to work with.
If you’re open to it, we’d really like to understand where things are breaking down for you. Specific examples of the areas that feel incoherent or mismatched with the docs would help us pinpoint what needs fixing. Astra’s flexibility is meant to speed up development, not increase it, so anything that’s adding friction on your end is worth addressing.
In the meantime, if there are particular parts of the builder or theme options that you feel have become overly complex, we can help suggest streamlined workflows or point you to settings that may have changed in recent updates.
We appreciate your long-time use of Astra Pro, and your feedback is genuinely valuable — it’s exactly the kind that helps us improve the experience for advanced users like you. If you’re open to continuing the conversation, we’ll do everything we can to help get things back to the level of efficiency you expect.
With Regards
Humayon
I agree with this review, Astra is deteriorating more with every version and support tries to blame that either on the customer or WordPress. Support is abysmal.
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xanathon.
Once we ignore the fecking idiots who see fit to turn up on a forum and do nothing to add to the discussion but are only capable of making ad hominem attacks on people far more qualified than they to judge, It is clear that Astra, especially its functional interface, does have serious issues. WordPress does play a part there – it’s going the same way that Movable Type did 15 years ago, concentrating on feature overload over usability, but the key issue is clarity of functional separation of Astra from WP and then, within Astra, of clarity of functional grouping, orientation, context and navigation. And, yes, it is getting worse, and to the point where the whole architecture has to be in question.
