maybe it's just the projects landing on my desk but the last few months have been different.

had two clients come in asking about moving off WordPress. not because anything dramatic happened one had a plugin conflict that took down their checkout for six hours, the other just got tired of updating things every week and something always breaking anyway.

neither of them came in saying "we want Drupal." they came in saying "we're done with this."

the checkout one was a 720 page site. we moved it to Drupal, load time went from just under 6 seconds to under 2. organic traffic was up about 12% in the first quarter after. not sure how much was speed vs the redirect work, probably both honestly.

the other one is still in discovery. some integrations that are going to be annoying regardless of platform.

wondering if this is a wider pattern or just a weird few months on my end. feels like something shifted in how clients think about their CMS but maybe i'm reading too much into it.