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Well, I'm one of these scared people out there. Three years ago I switched from HTML + JavaScript websites to CMS websites and finally found Drupal - via the usual milestones called WordPress and Joomla!. I started with Drupal 7 and learned and learned and I'm still learning. But now I can do a lot of things via my own modules and I'm starting to "understand" some of the structural ideas behind Drupal 7. But still there are so many things to learn. And now - just when the fog seems to be lifting - the Drupal gods are going to change the now familiar landmarks which I started to glimpse in better detail.
I'm not scared of coding. The obstacle is to understand the structure itself and how things interact. I'm in awe of the persons who really know their way around Drupal 7 and know all of the whys and hows.
I'm not stupid, though: I'm a freelancing  physicist and I make ends meet by developing hard- and software. Building websites is part of the portfolio I'm offering to other freelancers and small businesses. Each hour I have to invest in reorienting my inner bearings to the new Drupal 8 landscape is scaring I'm still having quite a lot to understand about Drupal 7. The areas I'm currently struggling with are:
Cookies; a non-email-based user type; the menu system; and - may be quite simple, but I still don't understand the full details - what steps Drupal takes to fetch a node and how I can intercept and modify each these steps.
So and now the powers that are change the code structure of Drupal. That's really scary. Sometimes I yearn for less elegant code and much more remarks in the source files. But things will head in a different direction: still more abstraction layers and overhead and less simplicity and also less remarks in between.
Guess, how I found this blog: I entered the keys "Drupal 7 competitors alternatives" into Google. I'm so scared that I'm looking for an open source CMS that is as flexible as Drupal, with a friendly community (the community is a one of the big plusses of Drupal) and that is well documented. And here I am and sacred as hell.

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