That's another interesting perspective, especially the point about asking people directly instead of relying too heavily on passive tracking.

That way of thinking is actually what led me to build Plugiva Pulse. I wasn't trying to replace analytics or surveys - I was wondering if there was a lightweight way for visitors to share feedback naturally while they were already on the page.

Thanks for sharing your workflow. It's genuinely helpful to hear how experienced developers approach this.

That's a good point. Personal conversations are definitely possible with a smaller user base. What do you usually do once your audience grows beyond that? Do you rely more on analytics, or have you found another way to keep understanding what users think?

That's interesting. Do you usually ask through email, forms, user interviews, or something else?

I agree that AI is changing who builds websites, but I also think it's changing what we spend our time solving.

The pages are often the easy part. The harder problems usually show up later - keeping a site maintainable, preventing configuration drift, making admin workflows easier, or fitting the site around how a business actually operates.

Those are the kinds of problems I've found don't disappear with AI. If anything, they become more important as building the first version gets easier.

I like the distinction between visible failures and unnoticed changes. That explains why drift is so difficult to manage.

I also like your point about a single source of truth. In my experience, many teams naturally document code, but configuration often evolves through the admin interface without the same discipline. Once those changes stop being visible, keeping sites aligned becomes much harder.

I like your observation that the hardest problems become operational rather than technical as the number of sites grows.

I've found something similar on a smaller scale. It's rarely the updates themselves that cause issues. More often it's the small differences that accumulate over time. Most of the time it isn't a big change. It's a handful of small decisions made over weeks or months that slowly push sites in different directions.

Those little differences are usually harmless on their own, but across dozens of sites they become difficult to track and reason about.

Out of curiosity, have you found configuration drift or unexpected admin changes to be a bigger source of inconsistency than the automation itself?