Why is Dreamweaver 4 so popular? I know it tends to write better html, but I can never get it to edit a live website effectively. It won't connect to a live website as far as I can tell. How do you guys get around this hurdle?

In the past I've used Visual Interdev and Frontpage (2000 and later only) because of this. If dreamweaver really is a lot better though I'd like to use it. Any thoughts?