Welcome tspike!
spyderscripts does indeed seem to have issues with CMSs, which you've addressed pretty well.
Possibly where you got the 'elitist' impression was the talk on the lines of PHP 'not being a real programming language'... an issue I addressed earlier with the 'usability for programmers' argument which I think you almost suggested in your first post. And the same argument applies in support of CMSs (the task at hand is to create a web site not to type code) clearly we need tools, but, to summarise what you and have been saying, tools have usability or lack thereof just as much as web sites do.
I entered this forum with my guns blazing too, they soon set me straight though, this is a very friendly forum!
I think I've agreed with everything you've said in this thread, so I'm glad to have you here! Please could you respond to my thread? -->
What does Usability mean to you?