The most dangerous moment in a Drupal-to-headless migration is the one where everything looks fine. The content exported. The article titles are all there. Then an editor opens a launch-ready page and half the images are missing, the "related articles" block is pointing at a press release from 2019, and one product's category is now, somehow, a staff bio. Nothing errored. Nothing turned red. The references just quietly stopped meaning what they used to mean. That is the trap, and it lives in taxonomy, media, and entity references specifically because Drupal stitches your content together with numbers instead of names. Drupal is a house where everything is labeled by drawer, not by name Picture a house where nobody wrote what anything is. Instead, every object has a little tag: see drawer 47 . The cookbook says "pairs with drawer 112." The remote says "belongs to shelf 9." It works…

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