I don't agree. I'm exactly in the position of the author with my clients.
The real problem is with the Wordpress makes your client think it can outsmart you.
I don't care about billing random hours to fix a footer. If anything, I program all my sites so that global options like these are ALWAYS easily editable by the customer. That's not my business model.
It's just frustrating when the user wipes an entire section, because they decided that "oh, I can change that font here".
Despite recent changes, Wordpress remains the best choice for the type of websites OP and I are building, I believe.
That said, I would absolutely pay for a Dev version of Wordpress mantained by Automattic that would get rid of all the "easy to use" fluff by default.
With a user that has more power than what they understand, they will break the layout and blame the developer. You then have to go look at what they did.. and as it is in a GUI and not in code, it will be much harder to troubleshoot and thus fix for a reasonable price.
> It's just frustrating when the user wipes an entire section, because they decided that "oh, I can change that font here".
My clients fuck up their WordPress websites all the time. Revisions and incremental backups solve that issue. Nothing we can do to stop an adventurous website owner on a Friday night after 2 glasses of wine.
Thankfully most of my clients stick to what they do best: run their business and leave the website editing (not content creation) to us.
WP is trying to head off Wix and other "full site editors". I don't blame them but I won't use the new tools as I've already implemented my own solutions.
Those systems just need to be tried out by clients once, so they actually find out that 99% of the websites they could create with their own design abilities are sh*t anyway
I don't care about billing random hours to fix a footer. If anything, I program all my sites so that global options like these are ALWAYS easily editable by the customer. That's not my business model.
It's just frustrating when the user wipes an entire section, because they decided that "oh, I can change that font here".
Despite recent changes, Wordpress remains the best choice for the type of websites OP and I are building, I believe. That said, I would absolutely pay for a Dev version of Wordpress mantained by Automattic that would get rid of all the "easy to use" fluff by default.