I call bullshit on your Drupal FUD. You can't code effectively for Drupal without a robust grasp on basic PHP, SQL and the Drupal suite of hooks. You better have some serious OO chops too or integration with stuff like Views is going to eat your face.
Yeah, but mainly because Drupal is a pile. CCK & custom forms seems about four times more complicated than just doing it in raw PHP. So that is not necessarily taking anything away from the intelligence of the developers, only pointing out they are coding against the abstraction, not the plumbing.
Still I'd bet the majority of 'Drupal developers' are just folks who know what the right modules are & some customization tricks.
Woah. You're not arguing his point. He's saying there are people that hack at drupal without having a clue as to what's going on. He's not suggesting that is coding effectively at all. But that doesn't mean they aren't there, searching for specific strings, and spending 5 hours with trial and error before stumbling on a correct solution.
