slow and overcomplicated

I have been trying to use, understand, and extends Pods for the sake of maintaining legacy code.
I am still confused, to me it seems like an overcomplicated custom fields implementation that makes WordPress unnecessarily slow and is hard to customize even when reading the documentation over and over. I guess that a reason for still using Pods in 2024 might be a use case with a very complicated data structure. Otherwise, just define custom fields in PHP, if you’re a coder, or try ACF instead.