"But the backends were never a priority and ended up being hackish and hard to use for editors" This is our main problem, too. I don't have any data from our c

"But the backends were never a priority and ended up being hackish and hard to use for editors" This is our main problem, too. I don't have any data from our clients, but I have a feeling that being able to provide a clean, user-friendly, branded back-end would increase participation in content creation quite considerably.