Comment by tootie

My company does a lot of CMS work for clients. Everything from static site generators up to giant enterprise tools. One thing I've determined is that the giant enterprise tools are nearly worthless even for the enterprises they're designed to serve. They add giant layers of complexity to service features that look great in a demo and serve no business purpose. Then they become a technical ghetto full of proprietary plugin code that require product expertise and are inaccessible to the rest of the dev team. That and they cost $100K-$1MM and more for licenses. It's possible to implement them well, but only by applying the same kind of design principles you would to simpler systems. Even when I'm working with a client that doesn't blink at the price tag, I'm 100% onboard with headless or flat files.