hi,

here hicks compares ee with textpattern. i myself use ee for now 3 (?) years, and i could sign everything, regarding the advantages and the disadvantages (except statistics - i love and need them!). i quote the disadvantages:

**** My biggest beef with EE is the admin panel. I find it needlessly complicated, with options hidden behind many overly-wordy, illogical links and dropdowns. While a certain amount of this is inevitable with the level of control that it offers, it’s certainly more painful than it needs to be. The longer I have to look at it, the angrier I get!
**** EE promotes itself as a CMS, rather than blogging tool, yet out of the box it insists on referring to ‘weblogs’. This can be changed through one of many preferences to something more logical like ‘section’, but the template tags will still refer to weblogs. Harumph.
**** /index.php/ shouldn’t be in URLs by default, and it’s right pain to get rid of (but you can do it). Likewise, getting simple /section/title/ urls requires a lot of work. For something so flexible, getting the URLs I want is painful. With a new site this isn’t so bad, you can put up with the extra URL segment, but when converting a site from TXP, and not wanting to write large .htaccess redirections, it’s vital.
**** EE seems obsessed with statistics, time taken to render page etc. It’s all superflous fluff. Generally, I’m left with the feeling of “I wish I could just get rid of this bit here…”
**** A smaller rant, I’m none too keen on the tags: some require exp: at the start, some don’t.
**** File management is behind Textpattern, which has more control over uploaded images and files. This really surprised me! There is a good file manager plugin for EE, but this review is looking at built-in functionality.

taken from:
http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/expression-engine-vs-textpattern

The interface is nice, of course (but then so will the one of EE 2.0 from what I’ve seen—greatly looking forward to that!) but TXP, really, is not more than a personal tool. I am not sure how appropriate it is to compare TXP and EE. No matter—is this actually a feature request? Either way: the admin panel will be completely redesigned in EE 2, and EL have gone on record to change the term “weblog” to something else, so we got you covered there. Removing index.php is not really difficult, if not officially supported.

A smaller rant, I’m none too keen on the tags: some require exp: at the start, some don’t.

That’s actually not true, either: Variables don’t, but any reference to a plugin, module or extension should start with exp. It’s quite consistent behavior, in fact.

well, i thought that now, with the development of ee 2.0 all this feature-requests will be obsolete in a few months. but perhaps the developers can take some inspiration from this list which shows some points that could be better.

surely: i didn’t want to say with my post, that we perhaps all should migrate to textpattern

Well, we know relatively little about the final shape of EE 2.0 at this point, so I only addressed the points that are public knowledge. Either way, EllisLab was well aware of this article, just not sure I agree with the assesment in general. Thank you for your input.