[mherchel]

Contentful just abstracts away the complexity (for money). It's still complex, but you're paying instead of dealing with the complexity.

[colbyfayock]

i think thats a fair point but there's a lot of benefit from from that. they're able to focus on making a great CMS

there are also some open source solutions that are great. Netlify CMS works really well for a very basic page / blog management solution

a lot of the headless CMS solutions also offer generous free tiers, making it perfect for web devs to spin up a free instance for their personal sites and projects