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Thanks for the great feedback.

I seem to have a hard time expressing the "professional computer-engineering world" vs. the "hackable web software world" in a way that's not offensive to people, and still gets my point across. For starters, the two are not mutually exclusive. There are a lot of great people who started as a web software hacker, and are now professionals.

What I'm worried about is the initial code complexity of D8 being a turn-off to those hacker types.  People who pop the code, realize instantly that there's a bigger picture that they don't quite get yet, and are intimidated by it.  Yes, there will be those who jump in anyway - but the more complex we make things to start, the smaller the number of people who make it through to the top. I want to continue to be a community full of those people, and I'm worried that D8 threatens that. Would Drupal the Drupal community still have a Catch or an AlexPott if they had to start with Drupal 8? I'm sure it wouldn't have a jenlampton or a quicksketch.

I also share your concerns about modules being ported to one system vs the other.  However, I don't think things will end up too different than today.  About every other project I work on still requires that I port one module or another to Drupal 7. I'm hoping that by making it quicker & easier to port things from Drupal 7 to Backdrop, the barrier comes down and more gets done. Time will tell.

Though the choices are hard, I do think having more options is generally a better thing. But I'm also in favor of everyone succeeding :)

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