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I ran into the same issue a couple of years ago. We had an existing WordPress site. Issues were continuous paving over by consultants resulting in a overweight and fragile site with zero support for true mobile-responsive content authoring. When we discussed our needs with consultants the universal response was to just use WordPress. Clearly Wordpress had frozen this space with their just barely good-enough solution. The other factor at play was the rise of site builder SaaS platforms like SquareSpace and Wix. Their tooling was very slick, but not something you could consider a true development platform, i.e. something that developers and content authors would both consider truly meeting their needs. I liked Locomotive a lot and they used to have a page on their site that really nailed the WordPress shortcomings, but they were in the midst of working on their next major release and we couldn't wait. We ended up going with a cloud based, platform neutral CMS, prismic.io. We got our responsive authoring capabilities and fairly easy integration with our Rails stack. It has worked well. I think our content authors would say they would like more control over the presentation, but I would say that is part of the reason why we like it, because they can't hijack the entire page which inevitably leads to quality issues because the authors are not prepared to test their work in multiple browsers and mobile devices. It also lacks the out of the box blogging structure that WordPress has, but if you are looking for a more versatile publishing capability then it may fit the bill for you. The market has evolved, I'm sure, and I have not kept up with it. I would recommend looking at Locomotive and prismic or other cloud based CMS options but I don't think anything is going to emerge as a dominant CMS platform al la WordPress any time soon, if ever.