@Kevinjohn Gallagher - Well, I knew someone was going to play THAT card against me, might as well be you :) I agree that just because a large amount of people use something, it doesn't mean it's the best. However, there are plenty of other options that exist that are free and open-source but a large percentage of people have chosen to use WordPress instead of the other content management systems. Are those people idiots or are they sticking with WordPress in the long run because it fulfills most of their needs and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to use the software?

I only run one Website, this one. I've used different content management systems in the past such as Joomla and Drupal and therefor, my perspective of them is skewed based on that experience, not current use. So far, WordPress has not given me a reason to look at, test, or use a different system for publishing and managing content. By the way, we can go back and forth all day long as to what a CMS actually is, but I use WordPress to Manage my published content and therefor, I consider it a CMS although I also consider it to be a publishing platform. You don't see WordPress as a CMS, I do.

@Dave Doolin - If WordPress ends up putting all that crap into the core, it will become the 20% of the feature base that I'll ignore. As a one man site author, I don't need all that jazz. I need what WordPress offers today and thankfully what it doesn't have, can be supplemented with some great plugins. But if WordPress starts to become some corporate thing that ends up satisfying most of the things that Kevin mentions, then I'll end up being pushed to the edge case in terms of why I should use the software.

So the question then becomes, how does WordPress maintain the strengths it has today in terms of why it's so popular with users all across the board in terms of skill levels but also implement most of what Kevin thinks WordPress needs to be considered a true CMS?