What is the point again?

What is the point anyways? You build a dynamic content site, it has all of this data in the SQL Database, and it's being pulled into XML file and then loaded into a flash app on a page. Fair enough. Only problem is there are some >100 menu's with multiple items in each, and no admin interface was built. Some of these rows have descriptions that exceed the character limit for enterprise manager. Which means in order to update those items, I'll have to write a SQL update statement for each one. ... No, wait actually that's all wrong, apparently updating these has always been such a pain that last time, no-one knew how to do it, and instead of updating the XML from the database, we now just pull from a static XML document and that's the only thing that needs to be updated! Wonderful! What a waste. Sheesh!