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I think the biggest challenge for us with Perch comes in terms of what we think is great about the solution and what the average customer values.

For example we initially shipped without any kind of "WYSIWYG" editor, we personally think that Textile or Markdown in combination with structured content is a far better solution. However a lot of our customers want to put something that looks more like a Word Processor in front of clients, so ultimately we offer those things as plugins. We try and be opinionated and develop what we feel is the best solution, but also give people different ways to use the system.

Perch is based on a very traditional PHP & MySQL stack, because that was what was available on the shared hosting most people used when we launch and that they still use now. I don't think there would be a better stack to launch something brand new on now, assuming you want mass adoption.

Things that have changed in a big way however are that we launched Perch pre-responsive design. The idea that people might want to edit sites from a mobile device wasn't on the radar 7 years ago. That has obviously changed and we've had minor redesigns over the years to help with that but our current redesign puts editing from phones and iPads as a first class citizen alongside desktop, so we are looking forward to shipping that.