Why Managed WordPress Helps — and Where It Fails: Real Deployment, Staging, and Update Lessons

https://www.bookmarking-presto.win/why-freelance-web-designers-and-small-agencies-keep-waking-up-at-2am

I work with agencies and product teams who run into the same friction points over and over: deployments that break on Friday afternoons, staging sites that never match production, and "simple" plugin updates that bring the site down