I don't totally get it. On one hand he's selling this idea that making a dream site can be easy (and it is if it's a very simple site, I guess). He's got 2 decades of experience that say there's more to creating a site than the tool that you're using.
Then running the backend of usual cms systems is made to be hard. But if you know how to install node.js and you're talking about these other components and services like firebase, really that isn't any harder than running click and point software that installs all the backend for you for these other cms solutions. It's not a breakthrough leap in simplicity.
Then running the backend of usual cms systems is made to be hard. But if you know how to install node.js and you're talking about these other components and services like firebase, really that isn't any harder than running click and point software that installs all the backend for you for these other cms solutions. It's not a breakthrough leap in simplicity.