Review of PHP blogging software

One of the basic decisions when writing software is where to put stuff. The organization should make intuitive sense, be modular and easy to modify. Creating an open-source, full-fledged blogging package is a complex task. It takes a lot of time and effort to produce, and when you finally have code you're happy with, some schmuck like me, who downloaded it for free, comes along to tell you what you did wrong. Actually, I'm not so upset with b2evolution, but I think there's something to be learned here about how all our great automated (pre-fab) tools may not be all that great...