I have been using Drupal for over 7 years, while working as a freelancer. I have built several multilingual sites over the years (my first in 4.7!). I've been lucky to work on some cool projects, like popsci.com, and for the last 2.5 years I've spent my time taking orders from the Marketing department to keep Acquia.com up and running the way they want it... I wouldn't change it for anything ;)