Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation

Drupal has made significant technological advances through initiatives like Drupal CMS, Drupal Canvas, and Drupal AI, but faces a reputation gap where the broader community remains unaware of its modern capabilities. Recent improvements include multilingual support, better integration with JavaScript frameworks like React, and a new headless Canvas option that allows developers to use separate front-end frameworks while maintaining visual authoring in Drupal. The Drupal community has launched an advocacy program to close the perception gap and demonstrate how substantially the platform has evolved.