> Drupal serves a huge market of people who simply could not afford an A-grade site built from scratch with one of the many low-level frameworks out there. ...

> Drupal serves a huge market of people who simply could not afford an A-grade site built from scratch with one of the many low-level frameworks out there. ...same can be said for WordPress, that actually "evolved into" a CMS from a humble blogging platform. And when freelancing, I made the "mistake" of offering customers a "custom coded Django based solution" at the same price one would charge for a WordPress based solution (functionality via custom theme/plugin). Boy, it was confusing for customers! The ones that knew about technology and prices couldn't know what to make of it, and it ended up lowering their confidences in what I had to offer! I just didn't fit in with their mental models of technology and prices - especially when you add the fact that I charged per project or per feature and not by the hour (they couldn't imagine that using what they seemed as a more expensive technology with allow me to do the job in less time and with less effort). I think we're approaching the point where a chinese/indian dev will end up stitching up a Rails/Django solution at the same WP-level < $40 / hour...