Cumbersome and underwhelming

Boldgrid did help to generate a nice looking, typically responsive page as a starting point. Beyond that, its a cumbersome tool. I used the premium version of BG since it shipped with my domain hosting. Ultimately, I had deadlines so I struggled through it. I would prefer to investigate other tools.

Here is a list of pros/cons:

Pro:
1) Many themes (inspirations, or whatever boldgrid calls them)
2) Typically responsive
3) Many widgets, blocks (I have premium), plugins, and everything a page builder should have.
4) Yay, my theme/inspiration has lots of stock images from unsplash.com

Cons:
1) In practice boldgrid is cumbersome since it relies on a difficult to manage block system. Think about it like cramming your site into cells on an Excel sheet. Yeah. Cumbersome.
2) Blocks are not very nice to customize. Example, I want to show one quotation block then have arrows to move forward or backward to reveal the next quotation one at a time. There is a block with these features but I had to edit the code manually. This means no more upgrading Boldgrid or I will lose my changes.
3) Automatically adds shadows to my pictures. I remove this using the menus but shadow remains stuck on my picture… like its part of the image. No, not what I want.
4) Responsiveness is difficult to achieve and the theme/inspiration or whatever always scores poorly on PageSpeed and other measuring tools. My responsive site was created by DISPLAYING SAME SECTIONS MULTIPLE TIMES and HIDING IT DEPENDING ON DESKTOP, TABLET, OR PHONE FORMAT. Excessive.. unnecessary… and poorly designed.
5) I wish I could remove the widget spaces that I do not use.. they use screen real-estate that I would rather use in other ways. Again, this is a flaw to the blocky clunky grid design.
6) Why is an theme / inspiration header and footer separate from pages? I find this annoying. It also leads to multiple definitions of important things like H1, H2, H3… etc…. that is not well liked by performance indicators.