Honestly, why arn't more companies using ModX?

I've just started work at a very large company that uses Drupal for all their sites. And man, do I miss MODX. This is the first time I've used Drupal so maybe I've got stuff to learn but it seems MODX can do everything it can do in a less complex, more straight forward way. I mean, Drupal (7) doesn't even use OOP!

This got me thinking, why don't more larger companies use MODX?

I can sort of see how small business might not use it - it's hard for non-coders to set up a site out-of-the-box, unlike WP. But for professionals, MODX to me seems like a good choice. Not much propriety code, shallow learning curve, scallable and flexible, clean and easy to organise, etc.

The only disadvantage I can see is that sometimes the admin section can be a bit sluggish to load, but that's all.

Would anyone know why Drupal has become the CMS for the corporate world?

Preach it brother, preach it!

I don't have any experience with Drupal, but one thing that WP has going for it over MODX is the whole Infinite WP thing (basically a management dashboard for all your WP sites that lets you update WP versions and plugins without going to the admin sections specifically) I *think* MODX Cloud provides some features in this area, but self-hosted operations like ourselves have to keep track of MODX versions some other way.

I'd love to find out I'm wrong on this though

Drupal is pretty horrible to work with and there's a security fix out every week it seems. I'm just helping a company migrate every single one of their sites from drupal haha.

My guess would be it's not widely adopted due to the user interface. It's great for developers and some clients even prefer it to wp but as a whole I think they feel it looks too complex on the face of it out of the box. Compare it to something like Sitefinity with a drag and drag interface that's a pleasure for an end user to use. Mod more has one available to purchase and it is great but it doesn't quite the same and it isn't out of the box.thsts my take on it anyhow.

Would anyone know why Drupal has become the CMS for the corporate world?

Head start?

Well, 7 months in and I'm still no closer to understanding how Drupal works.

Take right now, for example. I need to add some classes to a single menu. Drupal comes with no way to add these via the GUI. There's a plugin for that, but I can't download and use it because that may affect other Drupal sites.

The only way I can seem to add just a couple of CSS classes is to create my own custom module, specifically for this menu. I have no idea how to approach this or where to begin. What file do I create this function on? Which of Drupal's many hooks do I use? How can I be sure the changes I make are targeting only the 1 menu and not all of them?

There's just no answers for these things. I post on forums, but mostly get no replies. I Google my questions only to find others have asked the same thing and gotten no answers, 8 years ago.

It feels like the first rule of learning Drupal is you don't tell others how you learnt Drupal.

Even the commonly used plugins are deceivingly named: the Views plugin's main role is to help you build queries, the Paragraphs module allows you to place and organise components (whether they be images, galleries, forms, whatever) - not necessarily anything to do with typography, Pages are more about categorising and templating groups of data.

It's just painful knowing I can do the actual work quickly, but every time I approach a new problem it's like solving a riddle just to get started.

I miss MODX!

7 months in and you haven't converted the company yet?