I do have one complaint. It can be remarkably difficult to learn how to use Statamic properly. The documentation is a bit lacking. I often struggle to find a solution to a blocker only to find out there's a simple solution that wasn't documented very well. I think this is one of those things that will likely improve as the community continues to grow and mature.
When I last did my survey of what I could use as a CMS I ran into this, looked at the licensing and walked away quickly.
But I may be wrong since I didn't do any more research, .
For a pro license it's $275 upfront with 1 year of updates per site.
That is damn exception from my point of view.
You can use Pods for free on WordPress which is now a better choice than ACF in my opinion. But ACF has a huge marketshare and is better supported.
I mean not sure about JetStream, it seems to be Laravel scaffolding and open source.
Do you mean JetPack? If so I have not used that in a very long time. It had become very bloated.
There are a lot of other choices ut there som that cost less.