Drupal modules suck

Drupal provides a nice framework to building a website. People always mention that “there’s a module for that!” when you need to implement some kind of feature for your website. For example, a photo gallery or forum. This is nice and dandy, but the problem becomes that a lot of these modules lack customization and options. They are designed by the module designer in mind and NOT for you, specifically. I constantly end up finding myself saying, “That’s almost what I want, but I would like to add this and this in this module.” Good luck! Hacking the custom module and figuring out how everything is put together takes more time than to simply just write my own PHP code to get the functionality that I want. Drupal also isn’t very smart about creating its own custom VIEWS (SQL queries). It’s a give and take situation, but so far Drupal has been a crappy experience. I find myself banging my head and thinking, “I should have just written this in PHP myself and ditch Drupal!”