Kirby is the best!

I think it's important to ensure static site generators are seen as a viable alternative to a traditional CMS. If you have the technical abilities, they do a nice job of managing and organizing your content, which is the core function of a CMS.

I can't argue with the fact that Wordpress works and gets the job done. I've used it successfully for many sites, but it usually ends up as an assembly of miscellaneous pieces and parts that don't always play nice together.

I'd have to argue this is the same for Craft "has plugins for almost everything my clients want, and whenever there aren't plugins it's easy to write my own custom code". You can create very complicated sites with Craft CMS, and easily write your own plugins (which has made plugins popularity grow fast). I've developed a sports league site, which handles coach/athlete registration, team payments, athlete payments, custom cp for coaches to manage their team (and everything that entails), event creation for multiple event types, results input, and a very complicated stat system. It's very capable of creating complex sites, and I'd argue it would be better for the job than WordPress. WordPress, after all, is primarily a blogging platform that's been added onto. WordPress feels bloated, slow, and makes me cringe. If you're not a developer, then I could argue WordPress is the way to go, because it offers plenty of cookie cutter templates and enough plugins for every need that one doesn't work out for you, you can just try another.

Wagtail has a moderation feature which allows you to restrict. I'm about 99% sure you can give users permissions on individual pages too.

The downside with Wagtail is that you do need to be a Python/Django developer, or have one work with you, to set up your page models and such. If you do, it's great, but you can't just stand it up and throw templates at it like most of the ones in the linked article.

I know there's another one but it has a very un-memorable name. Off the top of my head, I think Contentful does what you want.

You can do this out of the box on Craft and Wordpress. For instance, on Wordpress you could have a user who can create posts but not publish them. They would then need an editor to actually publish the live post. You can also get more fine-grained with permissions if you care to dig into it. There are quite a lot of publishing flow plugins out there, but I don't have much experience with them.

You can create drafts of entries with Craft CMS, and there's a simple permissions system that would enable certain users to create drafts without being allowed to actually publish live changes. You can play around with those features on our demo site.

Thanks! I'll look into Harp and Metalsmith.