A developer can be the right person for a difficult integration, a novel interaction, or a stubborn technical failure. Changing Tuesday’s opening time is not that kind of problem.
The handoff is often larger than the edit.
Small website changes are often expensive for reasons that have nothing to do with the change. Someone needs a briefing, access, context, and a place in the schedule. The five-minute edit becomes a week of waiting.
The cost is not only the invoice. Businesses stop updating information because the process feels too heavy. The website becomes less accurate, less useful, and eventually easier to replace than repair.
Routine changes belong to the business.
Owners should be able to change copy, swap an image, add a service, and publish without understanding a component tree. Those are editorial decisions, and the interface should meet them at that level.
That does not make specialist work less valuable. It protects it. Developers can focus on the few problems where engineering judgment changes the outcome instead of acting as a permission layer for the CMS.
Use expertise where it earns its keep.
The goal is not a website with no experts involved. It is a website whose owner can tell the difference between a real technical problem and a sentence they should simply be allowed to edit.