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I have always admired yours and Nate's championship of developers such as myself who keep managing to stumble through Drupal. There really is a constant fear—and I am certainly not alone in this—that I will fall off the back of the Drupal bus and get left in a ditch with a bunch of obsolete knowledge. I barely hung on with the transition from 6 to 7 and I'm embarrassed to say that I <em>still</em> don't fully understand 7.

I've come across many hard-core developers whose responses to my struggling have undertones of "Guess you better suck it up and work harder," or "If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen." It's true technologies for the web are getting harder and more complex, but Drupal was always the guide who had my back and didn't require that I know absolutely everything, just a smidgen of a handful of things. This left me time to work on artwork and design while leaning on the code of the community. Now I'm having to learn SASS, Compass, Symfony, Yaml, Twig... It's becoming increasingly difficult to be a solo freelance website developer.

What interests me most is that you mention Backdrop being more of a stepping stone. This is exactly what I need: a friendly passerby that will stop and pick me up out of the ditch and drive me to the next Drupal bus stop, whether it be stop #8, or further down the road to stop #9.

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