I&#x27;ve been working with Drupal professionally since 4.7, have code in several contributed modules in D6 and D7, and used to organize the local Drupal User&#x27;s Group. I know all about the bitterness. I&#x27;ve spent the last 10 years watching a lightweight and infinitely hackable CMS turn into a bloated morass of opinionated overweight APIs that make easy things complicated. Yeah I&#x27;m looking at you renderable arrays.<p>Anyway I&#x27;m counting the minutes until an Acquia PM spots this post and starts spraying down the comments section with 35 paragraph word salad breathlessly defending the heroic efforts of the core dev team to drag D8 into the 21st century, in the process entirely missing the point that this may very well be the first core release of Drupal that will not run on commodity hosting due to resource requirements.