[jpatters]

You are right, Wordpress is not just Wordpress. And the obvious thing that we are missing is the plugin ecosystem that Wordpress has.

That being said, if you can do without plugins, I would highly recommend using a static site generator as it can reduce your development cost as well as your management cost. There is no backend to build and no server to manage. Forestry is a tool to allow you to take advantage of the benefits of a static site generator from a development and management perspective, and still allow your clients/users to be able to manage their content.