TYPO3 Core

I am a new user of TYPO3 planning to use for extended professional use. Now I am just trying some CMS's such as postNuke and TYPO3 trying to figure out which to use. TYPO3 seems to be a very strong CMS. I am used in working with HTML and PHP coding and I found it very disapponting to see that TYPO3 doesn't let raw HTML coding. Even after disabling the Rich Text Editor TYPO3 adds HTML elements in places that it clearly should not, otherwise why is there the option to disable the Rich Text Editor? That way TYPO3 makes impossible to design the page exactly the way one wants. It is very sad that I'll stop using TYPO3 for such a reason which it was totally unexpected.

(issue imported from #M334)