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After months of waiting for Drupal 6 to get up to speed, I'm getting sick of waiting.

The worst part is seeing Views 2 and other key supporting modules flounder while the core Drupal team rushes on to Drupal 7 before 6 is even usable.

Slow down, seriously. This is one recent adopter who's disappointed with the headlong pace and the near abandonment of what's just come out the door. I realize it's exciting and probably profitable to you, but when the codebase is a moving target and the next version significantly cuts into current development to the point of current = incomplete... well that seems an obvious Catch-22 problem to me.

Freeze 7 and finish up 6. You called it complete, but it isn't. You cannot complete 7 anyway since these are modules planned for the 7 core.

I'm not a site-designing company, so I'm not profiting from the steep learning curves, accelerated development and problematic upgrade paths. Overall I think the software is well designed, but the priorities of the companies that fuel most of the development are beginning to sit poorly with me.

Edit: I'm going to clarify here, because at least one person misunderstood the paragraph above. I'm not accusing anyone of being money-grubbing greed mongers. It's just that money and business tend to act like glue in regards to priorities such as these and that means the situation may be stuck this way./Edit

Granted, some of the forward-thinking features brought me to Drupal in the first place, but I'd just like a stable and complete platform to work with. It puts me at unease to realize that's two versions before what's being developed now.

This is me grumbling a little before I just make do with Drupal 5. I'm already past my original deadlines and Drupal 6 looks like it will still be stalled for awhile.