I have used Drupal several times in commercial and personnel projects. If you can use it wisely, it increases your productivity a lot. In my perspective if you

I have used Drupal several times in commercial and personnel projects. If you can use it wisely, it increases your productivity a lot. In my perspective if you can solve problem with something and if customer happy with I just use it. Drupal has some horrible design decision which makes your life hard, but wait which framework/CMS is perfect! Don't RoR or Django have some downsides? Developer needs to know internals and act accordingly. I know what problems Drupal have and I am not sailing near that coasts. At the end of the day this makes everybody happy.