Wordpress front end provides the CMS and Bling; proxy custom requests (crud, shopcart, etc.) to framework of your choice on the back end -- powerful combo. A f

Wordpress front end provides the CMS and Bling; proxy custom requests (crud, shopcart, etc.) to framework of your choice on the back end -- powerful combo. A friend of mine has made a killing on Drupal development over the years. When asked to help out on a couple of projects digging into underlying code to solve some square peg/round hole problems that he could not manage at the GUI level -- after one small project, I declined further requests; it was truly painful. PHP itself is of course a nightmare language (spent 6 years slogging through that mud) compared to Ruby, Python, Scala, etc., and Drupal's function-based hook system brings no joy, more drudgery really. Saying that, it seems that in addition to drush> there's an implicit drudge> that takes affect when working under the hood in Drupal...