Drupal is good if you (or your client) can be satisfied with something that gets you 80% of the way there. If you need that last 20% then it is possible to make it work but isn't going to be time/cost effective.

There's also a kind of sweet spot around multi author publishing where Drupal does better than Wordpress (at this point in time). If anyone tries to sell you Drupal as a solution for web application development, run away as fast as you can.

Source: several years of Drupal dev for enterprise and large brand clients.