alt Hacker NewsDrupal earned that reputation for so many architectural upheavals and pointless version churning. I grok innovation, but one of the core properties of web infrastructure is that it's relatively (in a software sense) architecturally stable. Drupal was not that.
> core properties of web infrastructure
That seems more like an implementation opinion vs. a core property.
Agree that it was a pain to keep up with sometimes, but if software doesn't evolve over a 25 year timespan - it's likely going to be stuck in the past.
The reason Drupal can do what it does today is because of this willingness to rebuild - otherwise it'd just be a CMS that solves problems from the early 2000s.