ExpressionEngine Core 1.5.2 makes this little spot on the Internet run.  It has good features and horrible features.

Management is a real nightmare.  The power and visitor experience is great.

Simple things become a serious challenge for the administrator?

The old pMachine package is very much more simple to use, but lacks some of the power features in ExpressionEngine.

Now that I have fought a bunch of battles and somehow managed to win, ExpressionEngine looks like a tool to use on other sites, but the battles to make it dance shouldn’t have been there in the first place!

Who decides to make a software package that requires a Nerd to get it working if they want to sell bunches of copies?

ExpressionEngine has very serious useability issues!  Stuff that should be simple to do is a real mess?  Basic Admin functions go to confusing menus and then do a dead-end once found? 

I hope the gang at pMachine.Com pause and address this problem.  If they do, they will have a killer product.