Drupal Is Dying
Disclaimer: I&#x27;m a full-time Drupal developer.<p>I think there are fair points&#x2F;questions raised in this piece, but some of them don&#x27;t really make sense or there are a few gaping contradictions:<p>- Drupal is also moving towards no&#x2F;low code (albeit in a slower way, as is always the way with Drupal). Layout Builder is in core and is getting steadily better. Acquia has its own Site Studio solution for this (wether or not that is a good thing for the project is certainly debatable).<p>- I agree that Drupal does too much and there are probably too many slightly different (maybe even conflicting) ways of doing any given thing. Arguing this is bad makes no sense to me. Yes, you need to make the right choices when deciding what to go with, but this is true for every ecosystem and for the same reasons. How many different FE&#x2F;JS frameworks does one have to be proficient with these days? Everyone in every field has chosen the losing horse at some point and that will continue to happen everywhere.<p>- Using Drupal 7 content-type editing UI screenshots in June 2022 to illustrate how &quot;bad&quot; Drupal is in 2022 is simply dishonest.<p>- Most of the 3rd party service providers (Mailchimp, Typeform, Disqus) listed as better alternatives to what Drupal offers also have integrations with Drupal. Not sure what the point here is; refer to the 2nd point I made above.<p>- I do agree with the point about finding talent to work on&#x2F;with PHP and Drupal specifically - but how is this different from any other technology? There&#x27;s always talent shortage in any given field for a varying degree of reasons. This is just PHP-shaming. Also, why would he care about developer talent&#x2F;proficiency with other technology if at the end of the day he recommends building sites with a SaaS? That&#x27;s for site-builders, not developers.<p>- Is a Google trends graph for Drupal an argument? At most I think it would be fair to assume Drupal is probably a known-quantity in the agency space and doesn&#x27;t grab much headline-space nowadays also because of that. I agree you&#x27;re probably better off using a SaaS alternative if what you&#x27;re building is a simple CMS-type website for smaller clients. The adoption of Drupal by bigger (ie, enterprise-level) clients is what I&#x27;ve been personally witnessing for the last 4+ years.