Website stacks have a way of growing over time.

You start with a CMS, then add a plugin for forms, another tool for SEO, something for analytics, another for optimization, and suddenly there are more tools to maintain than you expected.

If you had to simplify a website stack today, what s the first tool or dependency you d try to remove?

And what would make you comfortable removing it?

Building a website gets a lot of attention, but I think the ongoing maintenance is where the hidden workload starts to show up.

Updates, performance checks, security, SEO, integrations, content changes, hosting issues individually, none of these sound huge. But once you're managing multiple sites, the small tasks can add up quickly.

I'm curious how other makers and agencies experience this.

What part of maintaining a website consistently takes more time than you think it should?

I ve been thinking about the tradeoff between using an all-in-one website platform versus combining specialized tools.

Separate tools give you more flexibility, but they can also mean more accounts, integrations, updates, and things to maintain.