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Elliot from Payload here. In addition to Dan's comments above, the main advantage of using Payload's Admin is that it can integrate directly with your auth as well as offer a richer editing experience beyond the normal CRUD that others provide.

For instance:

- Field-based access control - This allows a developer to use code to write complex functions in order to regular access to a field. This can also reference the currently logged in user's permissions/fields etc.

- Conditional logic - Functions can be written to show/hide certain fields in the admin UI

- Dynamic field types - Complex layouts can be built with the Block and Array field types. This allows the ability to build out more of a "page builder" type input vs. simple CRUD.

I hope that answers your question. Here are some links to the docs on each of those:

- https://payloadcms.com/docs/access-control/overview

- https://payloadcms.com/docs/fields/overview#conditional-logi...

- https://payloadcms.com/docs/fields/blocks