Drupal was great for a time. At this point it just makes developers sad to work on. I see it as the tail end of the *Nuke days (DotNetNuke, PHPNuke up to 2006-

Drupal was great for a time. At this point it just makes developers sad to work on. I see it as the tail end of the *Nuke days (DotNetNuke, PHPNuke up to 2006-2007 prior to Python/Ruby/PHP 5 days).A cleaned up pass from that phase but well before the mobile, service based, cloud and responsive web that is also more efficient. Building custom products you want to make sure your developers are happy and the platform is flexible and fast to iterate on, Drupal is not the best choice. It has the same programmer dread that Sharepoint has. Most sites I end up seeing on Drupal have upwards to 100-200 db calls per page before optimization and caching but even then still heavy. It is at EOL. Yes you can build solid and tightly run Drupal ship as you can with any tech really, but why if you are starting a new system these days? There are much better solutions in every area. It is monolithic systems like Drupal, Sharepoint, etc that continue to push people to microframeworks.