It's not really about resistance to change either-- changing to a completely different platform is also change. It's about ROI and the R on Drupal's I is becoming increasing hard to find and, more importantly, justify.

Also, since posting the above comment, I've also found http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/455954/drupal_8_re-architecting….

The money quote is on page 3:

'I think with small sites I'm not willing to give up on them but I think we just need to say we're more about big sites and less about small sites, but then the small sites are still very useful to get people into the community," Buytaert said.'

To me that translates to "thanks for the contributions and contributors, but don't let the door hit you on the way out...". Indeed, the whole article seems tinged with it.

I've felt this for some time now, but was still hoping it was just paranoia. To see it so clearly and succinctly stated by Dries himself is completely disheartening to say the least.

That pretty much seals the deal imo. Why on earth would anyone continue to be used for their contributions by a community so clearly indifferent to their needs is beyond me.

Here's hoping backdrop fills the gap.

And sun's blog is at: http://www.unleashedmind.com/en/blog/sun/the-world-is-flat