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.…