[tanseydavid]

This was very similar to my experience with the "greater Sharepoint ecosystem".

At one point, maybe still today even, MS was pitching SP as a great environment to build and run custom apps inside of.

I put a lot of time and energy into trying to leverage SP in this way -- the result was extreme disillusion. Underneath the covers, believe me you do not want to "see how the sausage is made."

Around the same time one of the Sharepoint evangelists (or similar) wrote an article explaining that Sharepoint components/features (WIKI for example) were "never intended to be best-in-class or even close to it"

I mean, WTH that kind of statement should not instill confidence in anyone.