It's what many people with a reasonable understanding of web development and limited experience of writing a CMS think.
It's a well-trodden rite of passage for many web developers to end up writing a CMS or three from scratch (which are always limited, clunky, and unmaintainable) - until they get sick of getting caught out by edge cases on things like multiple editors in race conditions, CSRF on forms, scheduled revisions, password reset flows, user synchronisation, localisation etc.
That may be a great learning experience for a developer but expensive for businesses that end up having to migrate and re-platform after a year or two. It's really hard (and dull) to create a good CMS, and even then the considerations go beyond technical as this is a piece of business infrastructure. Why do you think Wordpress has so little competition even though it's a large and valuable market?
It's a well-trodden rite of passage for many web developers to end up writing a CMS or three from scratch (which are always limited, clunky, and unmaintainable) - until they get sick of getting caught out by edge cases on things like multiple editors in race conditions, CSRF on forms, scheduled revisions, password reset flows, user synchronisation, localisation etc.
That may be a great learning experience for a developer but expensive for businesses that end up having to migrate and re-platform after a year or two. It's really hard (and dull) to create a good CMS, and even then the considerations go beyond technical as this is a piece of business infrastructure. Why do you think Wordpress has so little competition even though it's a large and valuable market?