A Drupal-deep studio telling you when to leave Drupal sounds like a trap, so let’s lead with the honest part: sometimes the answer is yes. The first deliverable here is honest advice, and honesty includes this page.

When staying makes sense

You have structured content that matters — many types, real relationships, editorial workflow. You have (or hire) someone who knows the platform. You need permissions and multilingual and integration capabilities that come built-in. Modern Drupal (10/11) is genuinely good at this, and migrating within Drupal preserves your content’s structure — the expensive part — intact.

When leaving makes sense

The site is really a brochure — five pages and a contact form — wearing an enterprise CMS like a parka in July. Nobody on the team can or wants to run Drupal, and the budget doesn’t include someone who can. The content model is flat and the fancy machinery does nothing but demand updates. In those cases WordPress, or even a well-built static site, costs less over five years and fails more gently.

The trap to avoid either way

Don’t decide during an emergency. A panicked platform switch migrates your problems along with your content — and rebuild quotes offered as ransom during an outage are priced accordingly. Stabilize first (that’s the rescue), then decide with a written assessment in hand that prices both roads. The assessment doesn’t care which way you go; it just refuses to let you go there blind.