In reply to Antony Smith.

I second that view. And want to add: When I started working with WP 3 I loved the simplicity and that I could keep users from generating ugly content and there was a easy way to provide a consistent interface even non-technical persons could master with a rather flat learning curve. Now we have a menu hell like when MS started the ever-changing "contextual" menubars and templating is a nightmare of dependencies. To me, WP spun way off a consistently user oriented line since jumping onto the sitebuilder wagon.

It’s just like every other Open Source project becoming more a tool for people to feel important and therefore the concepts and interfaces have to be endlessly fiddled with, while core problems keep unaddressed for years. It’s as they were not sexy enough on a resume.

I feel a lock-in with one of my bigger projects, but regarding smaller websites with just one or a handful of users I‘m looking into flat-file CMSs atm. Since the beginning of the „interface revolution“ I feel I cannot recommend WP to small projects anymore, since the efforts to give them what they are able to work with seem to be rising constantly and thus their costs.