> Any halfway decent CMS (or just plain old HTML and CSS) can easily create a good-looking, responsive, accessible webpage with a fraction of the work.
Easily? Because it's not a fraction of the work. Let's just assume you mean to use someone else's solution (of the literal thousands, each with their own quirks), to make your bespoke website.
PDFs have a standard. Libraries to resize are not difficult to find. Most people are able to run a PDF through their printer driver for a resize, because it's a solved problem.
I would say creating a job that outputs a bunch of PDFs is going to be easier than a build system for different devices (CMS or not), every time.
Sure, they can render at different resolutions, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a PDF that has a responsive layout. A restaurant website is probably going to use some very user-friendly CMS like Squarespace that can absolutely provide you with easy responsive layouts.
Easily? Because it's not a fraction of the work. Let's just assume you mean to use someone else's solution (of the literal thousands, each with their own quirks), to make your bespoke website.
PDFs have a standard. Libraries to resize are not difficult to find. Most people are able to run a PDF through their printer driver for a resize, because it's a solved problem.
I would say creating a job that outputs a bunch of PDFs is going to be easier than a build system for different devices (CMS or not), every time.