Please check out this thread [1] and the document it refers to [2].
I think we are all almost on the same page. Basically we want to make it easy for someone to build a small site. That is one way to make OpenACS more popular. It's perfect for the type of sites I have been building.
[1] https://openacs.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0001ow&topic_id=12&topic=OpenACS%204%2e0%20Design
[2] http://www.museatech.net/etp/editthispage.html
