There's multi-purpose, single-purpose, and non-purpose; the latter being Drupal core.

The Drupal project struggled for years to agree on a use-case for a concrete product to build with and in the community.

Drupal can be used in many different ways. And everyone agrees that Drupal core must not prioritize one way over any other. But at the same time, we present Drupal core to newcomers and evaluators; a poor and pointless application that doesn’t do or solve anything. This time is over.

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