As much as I dislike Wordpress still, even after learning it better (know thy enemy), I still have a slight disdain for sites like Wix, Mobirise, and Squarespace. It's not the fact they are like the Mac computers of the website creation world and made for soccer moms and people with more money than knowledge. No, it's the fact that someone was smart/evil enough to create a self-contained CMS system where, if you want the cool useful features, it costs extra and you can ONLY get it from them.
At least with Wordpress, if you don't want to pay for a theme, you can say "Fuck it, I'll just learn to make my own". The same with the plugins. These other fenced off assholes however keep their ball and make you come to their house. I think what makes it worse is that they charge you a pretty penny for the privilege of having a website that doesn't say "powered by so-and-so" at the bottom.
And for those thinking I am just bitter for not thinking of it first, you can stuff that kind of talk up your own custom backend.
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