[deanotron]

This is true about infrequent updates - it may be more for providing the appearance of total control.

I would love to see a user-friendly universal app for managing static sites (Jeckyl, Docpad) that is something someone of my Mom's tech capability could use. (and let's be honest, WP itself is sometimes "way too much")

[bikamonki]

More than ultra-friendly I think what the static site CMS ecosystem is missing are tons of beautiful themes. Let's be clear about it: the client only sees and complains about the looks. Once we have enough themes out there it will take off. Lately I am playing with a homemade hack to use any html template on a static site generator....let's see how that turns out.