> If the developer wants to move the project beyond that, it requires domain knowledge and a lot of hacking.

Reminds me a bit of this blog post[0].

I remember doing a Drupal project around that time and being astonished at how powerful it was.

I also remember feeling more like a technician connecting various components than like a software engineer, writing code.

I totally saw the value for the client but I really disliked my experience, so I avoided it afterwards.

0: https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/the-website-rfp-and-the-impos...