"Oh, he says he was in charge of WordPress interface design for two years. Using WordPress causes me pain. I expect this product to be painful."
Wait, what?
WordPress' backend may be a mess, but it's CMS interface is the only one I've ever trained a non-technical person on that they liked or seemed to be able to use right away. I worked at a marketing/dev shop for years and have probably trained 40-ish non-techy clients (usually small marketing teams of 3-4) on customized CMS installs. WordPress' dashboard was by far the best when it came to power/usability ratio.
A lot of people feel their data is exceptional, and so meta data is where I see "custom" hurt content creation the most: Whereas WordPress has a neatly rolled meta data extensions into "Custom Fields" many CMS degrade into a morass of form fields.
People should be wary of custom built CMS UIs, not only because most people have learned a UI like WordPress or Tumblr.
Wait, what?
WordPress' backend may be a mess, but it's CMS interface is the only one I've ever trained a non-technical person on that they liked or seemed to be able to use right away. I worked at a marketing/dev shop for years and have probably trained 40-ish non-techy clients (usually small marketing teams of 3-4) on customized CMS installs. WordPress' dashboard was by far the best when it came to power/usability ratio.