It's genuinely so much better than it's ever been.
I completely understand how people got burnt. The move forward was less about bringing users, site builders, and developers along for the journey and more about providing what enterprise needs.
And one of the enterprises that was front and center was Acquia, Dries' organisation that he set up to offer consultancy services based on Drupal.
Having said all that, it is genuinely a very good product now, and one that LLMs are incredibly good at building with.
The high level of documentation, convention over configuration, and the API-driven nature of Drupal lend themselves very well to LLM assistance.
Considering just how awful WordPress is in terms of security, community, cohesion, code quality and maintainability. I think it's a crying shame that Drupal has lost so much goodwill.
I'm not sure what the solution is, but I'd recommend anyone reading gives it a try with Codex or Claude code, and you'll hopefully see what I mean.
I completely understand how people got burnt. The move forward was less about bringing users, site builders, and developers along for the journey and more about providing what enterprise needs.
And one of the enterprises that was front and center was Acquia, Dries' organisation that he set up to offer consultancy services based on Drupal.
Having said all that, it is genuinely a very good product now, and one that LLMs are incredibly good at building with.
The high level of documentation, convention over configuration, and the API-driven nature of Drupal lend themselves very well to LLM assistance.
Considering just how awful WordPress is in terms of security, community, cohesion, code quality and maintainability. I think it's a crying shame that Drupal has lost so much goodwill.
I'm not sure what the solution is, but I'd recommend anyone reading gives it a try with Codex or Claude code, and you'll hopefully see what I mean.