How Drupal lost to WordPress! The Death of Drupal!
I am sumit, Consultant at SkillCone in FullStack with MERN, MEAN, Django & Drupal 7.
Back in 2000s, PHP became very popular because first time you could develop a complete web app by just functions without going to OOPS language complexities like Java,.NET . Not to mention the license fees.
This is where CMS start to Boom starting with Joomla overtaking market, zencart, WordPress and the future King DRUPAL!.
Drupal had an amazing architecture which made it naturally scalable with amazing Access control layer . By the time it is 2010 Drupal has over 30,000 modules and over 1k themes! The Eco system was really big and Drupal became the defacto solution for scalable apps with Johnson & Johnson and many big corporation adopting Drupal.By this time Drupal is no 1 for Ecommerce, Social Networks, Enterprise apps because it was completely free . Drupal community had over 30k modules completely free. You could develop anything in Drupal!
Arrogance, Over confidance & greed came in the Drupal Opensource Team. BY this time Symfony team gives offer to Drupal Leadership team to make new Drupal version in Symfony which would indirectly help Symfony. Though Drupal was not object oriented but still the architecture was very exhaustive and extremely Robust. Adding one more framework over drupal framework was a blunder which Drupal team made! Drupal 8 Was a Flop!
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By the time Drupal 8 came to market, Developers left Drupal because it was super complex to make third party modules. Even existing modules were not ported from Drupal 7 to 8. There was no support for Drupal 8.
Drupal 8 eventually flopped and quickly moved towards it death. By this time, WordPress develops itself well, makes third party module development simpler and most importantly now supports access control which enables it to make multi access apps where users can have different access based on roles.
By 2015, WordPress becomes a leader simply evolving itself and Drupal looses completely.
Death of Drupal affected thousands of developers who mastered Drupal and most of them moved to Full Stack with React, Angular, Node or Wordpress! Back in 2010 Drupal developers were amongst the most paid and now they were no where. This is a classic example of over confidence and corporate greed which eventually killed words best CMS in just 3 years!
