It's a question many clients will try to ask you down the line in your career in order to try and get you to work for less. "Well I don't want you to code my website, just use WordPress".
TLDR: GUI is very very limited, learning to code opens up infinitely more possibilities and functionality for your projects.
WordPress is a great starting point for many websites, and can be everything a website needs so long as those needs are very basic.
Learning to code will help you develop more complex websites with more well rounded functionality. When you get into advanced WordPress plugins such as Advanced Custom Fields, knowledge of HTML and PhP become absolutely necessary. If you are looking to create cookie cutter websites that do nothing more than open and close certain pages, WordPress out of the box and with basic plugins will get the job done.
However, knowing why those plugins do what they do and how they do it is one benefit of learning to code yourself. Plugins often have conflicts with one another or even themselves at points and sometimes it will be necessary for you to dive in an find solutions to these problems which you will not know how to do if you don't know how to read or write the code.
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