I don't disagree with you: the building blocks of Drupal are fine for what they are until you want to think in richer abstractions. When I talk to people who w

I don't disagree with you: the building blocks of Drupal are fine for what they are until you want to think in richer abstractions. When I talk to people who want to create a content-driven site, I walk them through the three types of web sites I see: those simple enough to be comfortably implemented using WordPress, those that are more complicated by still simple enough to play to Drupal's strengths, and those that are more complicated or are expected to be more complicated over in the near to mid term and thus call for a Django (my choice) or Rails or whatever application.