[mantrax3]

Well you see, when I refer to "powerful" I mean custom, scalable, service based architecture best fitting the app at hand. PHP can do that. I can even write some of the services in other languages, and it'll work just fine. PHP is only as good as the coder using it, because it doesn't make many assumptions about what I'm doing or how I'm doing it.

I don't hook my intent into PHP, like is the case with Drupal. I express my intent in PHP. Freely. As a developer I value that very highly.

And so when you refer to me form handling as an example of "powerful", it's obvious we're not on the same page as that's merely scratching the surface.

Drupal is less powerful than PHP because it locks you into its architecture. You may sprinkle modules and snippets everywhere, but you remain locked into the Drupal paradigm. And I, at least, find that more harmful than useful.