As a developer a love how powerful WordPress is - I can create completely custom themes, and plugins to do anything from outputting a bit of text to turning WordPress in a fully featured web application.

...and I also love the simplicity. Why?

Because it gives my clients to power to publish content with little or no technical knowledge. If a sidebar widget helps them display an image without having to type any HTML, that's great. ;)

I can focus on what I'm good at, my clients can focus on what they're good at.

I agree that there is a certain amount of responsibility for running your own self-hosted WordPress installation that may require some technical know-how and awareness, and I think this is something that new WordPress.org users should be aware of before diving in head first.

But for the likes of myself who creates and manages web sites for people, the combined power and simplicity of WordPress.org is a great solution.