I agree as I have been using netbeans as a php editor and except for a few css editor issues, Netbeans is perfect! I have finally pulled the plug on using dreamweaver and have gone to Netbeans only...I am not looking back!
You are very close, Blogs are content and WordPress does a better than good job of managing them. However, full content Managing Systems do the things you ask and allow easy porting of various other content systems, such as Galleries, shopping carts, wiki's etc. Which is why I went away from trying to bend WordPress into a CMS and instead got a CMS that I can add WordPress to if I need a blog content tool. I am still tweaking my Cms site but it will soon have WordPress content as well as Blogger content all within my CMS. That is what a CMS should do... also there will be other content and links on the site, BLOGS are not the only content on the web.
Didn't some else already write this POST? JK... I agree the posting subjects seem to be in the "LOOP", I, however, hope that with each iteration they are getting better or more clear or changed in one way or another. Tutorials and Codex information would be better served in a wiki environment ... for cross referencing etc.