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I agree with this. Drupal adds a layer of not much improvement as a trade for lots of extra work.

I think Drupal is a relic of the past when monolithic frameworks rather than the microframeworks ruled the day, I agree the same thing is happening in javascript world. The smaller/component/message based libraries win out after people know how to do things. In the beginning monolithic helps people make the jump, but quickly become too all encompassing to the point it hides what you need to know (asp.net's famous fail).

Who knows, drupal might have started off clean but when you are an overarching monolithic framework that becomes the go to for marketing/bizdev technology decisions then it bloats to EOL. You won't find a happy developer in Drupal-land but you'll find lots of marketing/bizdev peeps that think they are working out the need for a developer by using the standard bloated CMS of the day. Angular is still on the developer front, but if it gets big enough and it is monolithic then it is a problem.

Drupal could be worse though, it could be Joomla, both flawed monolithic platforms from the PHPNuke evolution tree. That fad ended in 2007.