We’re in the middle of testing some users through a few “WordPress as a CMS” scenarios. One of the items that really stands out as needing some attention is the static front page setting in Settings->Reading (I’m sure this comes as no surprise to many of you ;-)).
I worked on a quick concept (with some helpful feedback from Jane) to get things rolling in #16379. Feel free to add your thoughts to that ticket.
If any of you devs want to work on a patch for this, you’d get a big gold star in my book! 🙂