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Thank you Jen for articulating a lot of what has cooled my enthusiasm for Drupal in the last few years (I just noticed my d.o profile is nearly a decade old yikes). I don't really follow what's happening much with the Drupal community any more, but just now stumbled onto this Backdrop news.

I'm not a full time Drupal dev and not a professional, but over the years I've built/maintained/rebuilt a complex Drupal site with lots of custom modules including a whole bunch that extend CCK and Organic Groups that will need something drastic done to it before D6 support runs out. Frankly the prospect of porting it to D7 is looking daunting and decidedly unfun, and redoing it using a Python framework is looking more and more viable as an "exit strategy". The site has gone through 5 major Drupal version upgrades since 4.4, but D7 is just too much churn. D8 will be even more again later. It's not just the changes to core either, it's also the contrib ecosystem churn necessitating migration to a new set of modules each time.

Last time I looked about a year ago D8 was sounding like an exciting prospect to me (CMI yay, REST yay), but now it just seems like an overengineered stack of Java-like abstractions on top of abstractions. It no longer seems as though it's worth going through D7 to get there. The "hackability" of D5 & D6 was its appeal and that was good enough for me to grudgingly use PHP. I'm not worried about OO at all - just the style of OO that D8 is heading towards as opposed to the more direct pragmatic styles of Ruby or Python.

I completely understand where you're coming from and I wish you guys all the best with Backdrop. Although I probably won't coming along for the ride, I really hope you succeed in building a sustainable project.

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