What are the pros and cons of EE?

Pros:-
* It has a pretty rich feature set.
* The ability to entitle different content items to different groups come out of the box.
* The forum module allows you to unify the discussion and content user list.
* The templating is rich enough to support a wide range of aesthetics and website design.
* The image manipulation functionality is great.
* It is extensible
* It allows for WYSIWYG editing.
* It is supported and documented
* The ability to update the content automatically through other means - using RSS feeds…basically XML. Or through email with the MoBlog module.
* Development speed
*Flexible architecture
* Extendable through PHP, Plugins or commercial extensions
* Intuitive tag language that's easy to read and maintain
* Very helpful and responsive community

Cons:-
* A way to build/use templates that are outside of EE (i.e. not in the database).
* The ability to include content from an EE instance in a site that is not an EE site.
* Image upload / organization could definitely have been solved more elegantly
* Automatic thumbnails or scaling of images only available using a third party (non-certified) plugin.
* Some default settings are for bloggers, not professional sites.