Hi Rui,
Thanks for your feedback.
I'm guessing your underlying issue is that you're either not charging enough, not making enough margin on your projects, or have some price sensitive clients. Am I right?
My suggestion would be that you add up "the cost of the software" + "the cost of your time to set it up" and choose/buy software that generates the most revenue for you. We do have more CMS Builder updates coming, etc but what really matters if how quickly you can build websites with these tools, and how much profit you can make on the job.
There's a famous quote by one of the original developers of the Netscape Navigator browser: "Linux is only free if you don't value your time". What it means is free or low-cost software isn't really free or low-cost if it takes you a ton of time to make it work. (For the record, we love Linux).
Often, when we do custom programming jobs, clients will ask us to use some 3rd party script they've purchased for $10 or downloaded for free to try and "save money", and it seldom happens, we end up spending 4x as much time trying to get a free solution to work. And we've even lost jobs for major corporations who would rather choose a free solution like Drupal with $40,000 in customizations, then a custom non-free CMSB setup and $10,000 in custom programming. Free sounds better and people tend to make emotional (not mathematical) decisions.
You might have some clients where a cookie-cutter Wordpress website is all they need, and for those clients, you may save time and make more money offering them that, but when they want to grow and expand our tools are going to allow you to continue to expand and customize their websites with the least cost to you, which means the most revenue.
We know this because we're playing the same game, we want to build better websites faster, so we can offer our clients more for less, and make good money on it as well.
Anyways, by all means use what works, and if you try some of those other solutions and find they're not as "low-cost" as they seem once you add in your time and all the things they don't let you do, feel free to try more of our solutions. Most of our best customers are former drupal, wordpress, etc users.
Hope that helps, and thanks again for your feedback. Do what's best for your clients and your bank account! ;)
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com