All in all, WPML worked well for me for a few years. It does the job. There were some major technical problems all the time like media files duplicating and having unexplainable translation jobs in weird places but everything started going seriously bad when the automatic translation was introduced.

You can very easily create copies of pages, menus, URLs to another language.

First of all WPML is a very powerful tool to create a multilingual WordPress website. It's easy to install as any other plugin, and its Panel Menu is easy to understand. It provides many options to create your multilingual WordPress site or blog, it's compatible with almost every WordPress theme and provides compatibility with many other plugins like WooCommerce, Contact Form 7, Mailchimp and also a very powerful tool - WP All Import that allows to bulk import posts, pages, and WooCommerce products. I haven't tried this one yet but it's good to know you have such a powerful tool available when needed. Inside WPML there are many other modules that enhance this product way beyond you would expect. I purchased the lifetime license, already built some sites with it and I believe I still don't know all the potential of the plugin. But even if you don't have a lifetime license, the available licenses are affordable even to a beginner WordPress user.