I had a perfectly usable blog built in laravel 3 with a content manager, hosted comments, the works -- but I destroyed it because one day I decided everything had to be turned into modules, and then one day everything had to be statically cached, and the switching the css framework from bootstrap to skeleton then back to bootstrap, then I built a custom static-page generating php framework, then I realized what an awful idea that was (although it's what my site is running now, minus a blog and anything interesting), and now I'm trying to port my laravel 3 stuff over to 4.
Just dumping textfiles into an open directory honestly would've been more productive (if less fun.)