What/why is the CMS failure rate?

I'd just like to contribute my two cents on the last year of my life as 
a web developer.

My whole forray into the programming world began with the need to 
publish articles on this site: http://theicarusproject.net/

There are three admin users, and a couple of hundred readers. No 
workflow, no image management, just plain and simple articles. I could 
not find a single program that used PHP that I could actually 
understand and integrate. I program for a living. It shouldn't be 
rocket science to figure out a web application if I write them every 
day.

I think that the core disconnect for the sorry state of CMS's today is 
that they provide integration in all of the wrong places, and don't 
automate what should be automated. And plenty of idiots attempt to sell 
something (as darrel said) that provides absolutely no value over say, 
dreamweaver but claims to be all database happy and friendly.

Besides that, after working at more than a few tech companies, I 
*seriously* doubt that many of these CMS products had the influences of 
both a programmer, a web developer (/information designer), and a 
graphic artist. Because of that there are products that look great, or 
don't work, or have a great code base but are impossible to use. 
MovableType is one of the only CMS-esque products to actually pull this 
off pretty well, and they're only handling the simplest of tasks.

Anyway, I've been trying to roll my own for about a year now, and 
hopefully I'll be able to release something before to long. I'll 
attempt not to be a complete troll on the list when mentioning my own 
URL =)

-Ryan

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