Thread:Project:Support desk/Why is this software so complicated?

Looking at open-source wikis, MediaWiki seems to be the best however, extremely confusing when diving into the back-end of it. I don't understand why they want to use complicated variable names and extremely confusing settings that require hard edits to a config file. Why can't there be one administrators panel that contains everything you need without needing FTP to access the wiki files to manage simple things?

Now the template engine, it's crazy. It's way easier to learn HTML than it is to form a table using their confusing engine. I see many bad practices when diving into the back-end and I'm wondering, why? Why does such a popular wiki software have just bad engines? I'm not going to lie, it's a powerful software however it can be written so much better to make it friendly to other developers.