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by ultimatedelman 4450 days ago
That's totally fine and understandable. However, what if I decide that I want to do something a bit more complex? Data-driven, even? What if I want more interactivity? Now I am limited by what your tool can do, and I've already taken the time to learn to use your tool and build a site in your ecosystem rather than learning how to code myself and be unrestricted in what I can do.

Again, I'm sure your intent with this product is not "build every website out there," but I am concerned by those with a little knowledge and ambition using your site as the easy way out for making a website rather than taking the time to actually learn how to do all those things for themselves.

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I find I have the same problem when I enlist the use of any tool more complex than jQuery, haml, sass, coffeescript. Even if it is something like a jQuery plugin, bootstrap or foundation. Those addons are great as a way to impress your boss and get to a starting point quickly or early. As soon as something needs to become sufficiently complex that's when I really start to regret my decisions.

I imagine this tool is perfect for creating a beautiful landing page or similar. Obviously one isn't going to try and use it to build anything enterprise grade.

But there lots of jQuery plugins or css frameworks out there but they largely seem to have active user bases.