When I first moved to headless WordPress, it felt like a huge upgrade. No more theme constraints. No more mixing PHP templates with business logic. A clean separation between frontend and backend. It worked. But after a few projects, I started noticing a new problem. The New Problem Headless WordPress removes one layer of complexity… …but it shifts that complexity somewhere else. Now your frontend is responsible for: fetching data shaping responses handling auth managing consistency across endpoints And if you build multiple frontends? You repeat that logic. Every. Time. What Headless Actually Solves Headless WordPress is great at: decoupling the UI improving performance (especially with SSG) giving frontend flexibility That’s all real value. But it doesn’t solve: Where does application logic live? The Missing Layer Most setups look like this: Frontend → WordPress REST API Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Simple. But also… fragile.…