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I am - to a degree - what one would call a "professional developer" and I liked Drupal for its simplicity. If you want something mind-****ingly complex, you can safely buy into typo3. From my point of view, with what they are doing, they risk to create a bad mimic of typo3. I believe Drupal is moving too fast. The ideas of the people are way to focussed on what more and better they can do in the core. Sometimes it is better these "high flyers" move on to create a whole new product and let the old one just evolve.

I have seen this world of "frameworks" ... 400 lines to write a hello world application. It is NOT the holy grails. Have a look at the hell of ruby on rails. Try to take e.g. Redmine (which Acq. happily embraced). You got a 10:1 chance to fail the installation running into a deadlock of version dependancies on any Linux distribution. This is the mother of all frameworks! Why is that? Because the core evolves faster than the distributions and modules and applications. With many D6 setups still out in the worlds D8 will be too early.

Other example GNOME is being counted out because KDE is more solid on the core. GNOME got forked into Mate. Is that good for GNOME? You may keep telling this to yourself if you so wish.

To do a revolution and call it just another major version is leaving many old friend behind.

I will likely turn to Wordpress and keep in touch with Backdrop, but the Drupal 8 will most likely no be my platform of choice anymore.

A pitty!

When I hear: get rid of the old menu structure. I always believe this was the most admirable feature in Drupal. With D8 people do not develop forward, they join the masses of people who did not understand what they were messing when they overcomplexed the world with even more XML.

I farce.

Sad, 
Adrian

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