but at least provide some difference, like branding the new form-sending option (form sent using a students version of BSS), and on their free hosting so to differentiate the 2 versions.
Seriously?!?
I still have the impression that many people asking basic questions in the forum were not paying for their license
BSS is not Photoshop. It's a $30 program. I think you're paranoia is a bit exaggerated. Sometimes people just ask naive questions because they're using a program for the first time, and not everything is obvious to a new user.
If BSS wants to compete with the likes of "popular builders" like Webflow, Wix, Weebly, Mobirise, etc... it has to allow a person who knows basically nothing about Bootstrap to put together a functional site (ideally from a template) that is able to do basic things like forms, slideshows, galleries, maps, and so on, without the person having to write code. If it wants to compete with more complex builders like Wordpress, Dreamweaver, Pinegrow, etc... it has to allow power-users to be able to access the nuts and bolts of everything.
Right now, it's sort of in the middle of the two. It gives newbies a lot of good tools to get started, but it's not totally intuitive, and there are some basic things it doesn't do easily, while it also gives power-users access to the code (sometimes in a cludgy way) but it lacks a number of things that are frustrating (e.g. not being able to make a dedicated folder for videos or pdfs/downloads.)
If I were to play devil's advocate, from a business point of view the smart course is to make the program more beginner friendly (i.e. dumb it down) because that's where the market share is, and it's going to keep getting bigger. From a power-user's point of view (if that's the direction they want to go,) I'd suggest the devs take a look at Pinegrow, because BSS and Pinegrow are actually quite similar in many ways, the main difference being that Pinegrow is considerably more complex, literally allowing you to do anything to a website.
That said, BSS is, in many ways, more polished than Pinegrow. It's definitely faster, it's user interface is smoother and laid out better. It's undo feature works better. The way it handles column options is considerably better. But it is limited in what it can do.
If you could take the best features from Pinegrow and BSS and put them together, it would be a killer front-end editor/builder.