"For 95% percent of projects that come in the door, using a framework vs. using a CMS (Drupal specifically) is a waste of time/money."
This isn't a trend, this is simply your market. Other web dev shops are in a different market and seeing different numbers. There are plenty of cases where a CMS (or even many frameworks) is such a bad fit that it wouldn't make sense to even try. If you spend your days building sites which aren't far evolved from brochure sites, then sure, a CMS makes great sense.
Well, for most of my projects I end up beating a framework into submission to make it do what I want. Using something like Drupal for those projects (I have) would accomplish only one thing: drive me insane.
"For 95% percent of projects that come in the door, using a framework vs. using a CMS (Drupal specifically) is a waste of time/money."
This isn't a trend, this is simply your market. Other web dev shops are in a different market and seeing different numbers. There are plenty of cases where a CMS (or even many frameworks) is such a bad fit that it wouldn't make sense to even try. If you spend your days building sites which aren't far evolved from brochure sites, then sure, a CMS makes great sense.