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This seems rather alpha.
Also, versioning with only numbers and dots seems a little basic or prescriptive to me, at least comparability with semver would make a little more sense to me.
At the same time I do think it's an incredible tool, and I personally do use it, as a sparring partner, to do quick experiments, to explore ideas or technology I don't have experience with. For example, in my current position I found myself constantly hitting limits with excel. AI enabled me to use Python, Pandas, Sklearn and other libraries to great effect. All stuff I didn't have prior experience with. So I understand the excitement.
I wasn't aware of the numbers you mentioned, that really puts things in perspective (and makes that upside down flag even more annoying to me).
> For a fact, more people in the UK get visits from the police over social media posts than they do in Russia.
Any sources for this 'fact'?
This is fine.
Seriously though, that's insane.
When I started out my career I basically was a one man web design agency, tailoring to small local businesses. When looking for a CMS I quickly found that Drupal allowed me the ease and flexibility to configure and customize websites for my customers. It was a perfect fit for me because I had enough skills to install and host sites, and to customize those things with code that I couldn't find a ready made module for.
Over time Drupal changed a lot, and my skills grew. My focus shifted more and more to the technical side. As Drupal became more professional, so did I, and with it, the customers became a lot bigger too.
I started to manage a team of developers, and then multiple. Finally I made a move to a big Corp in which Drupal was not used. I like the people that I work with a lot, all extremely capable and talented people. But I feel we're constantly reinventing the wheel. Things that I feel have long been solved in Drupal are somewhat half-assed due to the chosen tech stack and the time constraints. Drupal may not be perfect, but it did have an evolution of more than 20 years, and that shows. A very strong entity system, fields, taxonomy, user management, roles/permissions, i18n, asset handling (media), slugs, redirects, breadcrumbs, workflows, revisions, and perhaps the cherry on top: JsonApi (a porcelain if you ask me). A strong community and reasonable documentation means that it's possible to switch vendors, as everybody works with the same API's (mileage may vary a bit).
The situation now with where I'm at couldn't be further from that. Everything JavaScript and microservices based, build on a (imho) dreadful SaaS 'CMS' (Contentful). The so called 'enterprise' CMS is severely lacking, it's a usability a nightmare, I can't stress how bad it is. It's basically a glorified database, which means that everything else needed is being built completely from scratch. That simply doesn't compete with the 20+ years of evolution Drupal has had.
So yeah, I miss Drupal.