So logically I guess you were using a long lens or something, but it's much more entertaining to imagine that they were sitting on your head when you took this xD
From a personal design point of view, being able to arbitrarily resize and place images around text would be amazing.
From a webdev point of view, given some people's "amazing" design skills it would be a train wreck and the way they've got things set up now is much safer and makes sure that everything always looks presentable and that the overall layout of the site isn't destroyed, even though it generally looks boring XD
There are quite a number that do a great job working around/within those limitations though :)
Business does seem to be purely a numbers game no matter how pure the intentions when they started out (if they were pure at all XD).
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It was a short lens. It is my wife - so she lets me :)
At least give some options in the interface to make it easier.
I understand the webdev view too - but it might be interesting to have a halfway point - a few templates to choose from.
It's technically not that hard to have a halfway point (assuming by "halfway point" you're meaning some post layout template type things or at least means of juggling text and images in interesting ways), it's just more code to maintain and more things to break if they have to change or refactor something down the line XD