In reply to Andreas Nurbo.

Hi Andreas, The amount of time it takes for newbies or experts to build or redo WordPress sites has everything to do with WordPress. Somehow you disagree, and instead try to put all the blame on the web designer. But since even Matt agrees that WordPress is "too hard" and "too expensive," you're definitely wrong on this point. And your defending of developers is misguided. I already openly acknowledged that developers are "extremely important." But like pro football players compared to pro football fans and advertisers, WordPress end users are by far the most important audience for WordPress. Your rejection of this basic business concept goes to the core of why so many tech companies eventually fail (they think they are, or are, too smart for their own good). Like apparently you and Matt, many techies spend the majority of their time with the tech side to the detriment of their end users. Despite what you seem to want to believe, the developers are here to serve the end users, not the other way around. WordPress end-users have an increasingly number of strong options to choose from. But WordPress developers who base their businesses and incomes mostly on WordPress, risk losing everything as more and more end-users choose to go with something other than WordPress. So my advice to you (and others) is instead of trying to prove WordPress is not "too hard" and "too expensive," and that end users should take a back seat to developers, spend more of your limited time and energy reaching out to end users to find out what they like and dislike about WordPress. Especially end users that chose to use something other than WordPress. Assuming you deeply care what end users think, and can keep an open mind, I think you will find the effort quite enlightening and well worth it.