The document discusses the challenges faced by content management systems (CMS) in balancing simplicity and complexity. It suggests that although CMS have improved ease of use, they have also made more complex tasks harder to manage. The future CMS should focus on doing fewer things better, questioning what essential features should be included.

7. Invoice
Building a nice feature
Shoehorning it into the CMS
8 hours
32 hours

17. By trying to be everything for
everyone, CMSes have made the
easy stuff easier - but the difficult
stuff more difficult.

18. The CMS of the future
must do less.

28. What are your
ingredients?