I've been building with Drupal for many years now, especially in secure environments, and can't help thinking that over time the need to use additional tools to maintain it has dramatically increased.

Drupal used to be much more simple to build & administer when tun locally first then deployed, but now community notes assume you use Drush & Composer, which aren't really necessary if you know PHP dev & MySql administration.

I can't help thinking that the additional management tools mostly serve to help someone track how & where people are using Drupal by reporting specific build/deployment info & dev activity...

I haven't evaluated the add-ons yet, but may have to, because I regularly assure my clients their data and IP is safe. Also, running certain tools in firewalled environments causes a lot of issues & often requires whitelisting. If there are security gaps, we'll need to shift to a different solution, kust on principle alone.

It's important for Drupal to be fully transparent about what they monitor.

Very Very confusing, Google keeps referring me to D7 & D8 modules, and in my running instance of Drupal, the Feeds module isn't enabling when I try to activate it. I can't seem to find any online info on how migrations are done in D11.

I have a 150 row item {as a CSV file} of data I'd like to import into a custom content type that I've already created.

I don't use Drush or Composer BTW... UGH 🤔

We have to admit, it's losing market share... Drupal jobs often underpay, and most people are beginning to believe that static sites and other frameworks are better incorrectly.

I gave up on WordPress long ago because it kept getting hacked.

But the main question I have for Drupal is, where's it going for the future?

I'm really not interested in core bloat, the core is already huge. Also not very interested in Ai integration nor add-on libraries.

I expected e-commerce to get less complex, and modules & themes to expand, but it seems that versions are changing so often that community notes can't keep up.

I've been developing upon it since v4, hoping you guys can tell me there's a good leadership plan & future outlook for Drupal?

Also, I have contributed in the past, I don't have the ability to do so now.

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If everyone's making Drupal headless all these years why haven't they just refactored/updated the UI of Drupal to incorporate a faster UI?

It seems like reinventing the wheel to completely refactor the UI on top of a framework that is designed to work in a more secure manner?

Maybe I'm confused as to why people do this?