I never worked with pure Zope, my first job in the mid 2000 was using Plone, a CMS build on top of it. Certainly overkill for simple websites, but I found it mu

I never worked with pure Zope, my first job in the mid 2000 was using Plone, a CMS build on top of it. Certainly overkill for simple websites, but I found it much more enjoyable than other big CMS of the time. It had some cool things, that I started missing once I moved on. How well the permission system, workflow engine and hierarchical content structure worked together, undo functionality, accessing things via urls like “/path/to/object/method” instead uf unreadable params, component based UI, having a single configuration file (zc.buildout) to have a reproducible environment for development and production, etc. In many regards they were ahead of the time I think, at least in the space of things between simple script driven websites and very enterprisey solutions.