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by _fat_santa 1876 days ago
> Not just Git, marketing people also hate headless CMSes because they're hard to use and make it more complicated to try new things out. You have to use different tools to build forms, pages, and track users. Even as a developer I think it's a nightmare.

I strongly disagree. IMO a headless CMS is perfect because it provides a good seperation of concerns. Marketing people want to adjust taglines and tweak text, add tags and do that sort of stuff, they don't want to spend their time building interfaces. Developers want to build interfaces but don't really care to spend their time figuring out the perfect tagline or adjusting verbiage on a landing page.

With a headless CMS I can focus on creating the page, hook it up to my CMS, and then message the marketing person that the page is ready for them to add data to it.

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They don't want to build the whole interface but they sure want to move things around and try out pages with different layouts.

The goal is to allow them to ship marketing experiments as quickly as possible. With Jamstack, they always have to wait on the developer.

The only people who enjoy Jamstack are developers themselves because it's a cool toy to play with. I used to like playing around with Gatsby and Contentful 3 years ago. Then I decided that businesses need to make money and I can't be doing what I find fun to use at the detriment of the ecosystem.

Preach.