I'm pissed. Not at Drupal. At the people confidently hating on it without ever having understood what it actually does.
“Drupal is outdated.” “Drupal is too complex.” “Nobody uses Drupal anymore.” Tell that to the EU institutions, governments, universities and enterprises quietly running mission-critical platforms on it.
Here's what actually gets me though: the Drupal community lets this narrative win. I am guilty of this too.
We have thousands of contributed modules, maintained for free, by people who owe you absolutely nothing. The security team responds faster than most paid vendors. The community has been showing up for twenty years.
And yet we're somehow losing the PR war to frameworks that can't handle a proper content workflow without three paid plugins and a prayer.
Drupal people: talk louder. Write the posts. Go to the meetups. Tell the stories. Fight for Drupal.
Because the Drupal community is honestly the best thing in open source, and both it and Drupal deserve way better than silence.