I am in the "things were different a few years ago" camp. Joomla was a very fair CMS choice at the time, in particular for more static sites, when compared with

I am in the "things were different a few years ago" camp. Joomla was a very fair CMS choice at the time, in particular for more static sites, when compared with Wordpress. If something didn't merit the learning curve and other headaches of Drupal (again, especially a few years back) and was more cumbersome than was possible with WP at the time, Joomla was a fair way to go about doing it. At the time I did a few projects for myself and others using it. Now, though, the templating system and everything else feels rather archaic to me, and I am much quicker to just turn to Wordpress for almost any "quick out of the box" projects I would ever need to do -- WP just works and is so extensible and easy to use, and so easy to skin as I need it. For some instances I could see wanting something more but nowadays Joomla doesn't have as much to offer for me or, I think, many others.