Drupal 11.4.x are both Composer and Drush still recommended together?

Greetings jaypan,

Thank you so much for your succinct reply! I was half fearing that my post about using both Composer and Drush would not turn out to be understandable. I am relieved to see that at least for you the line of questioning made sense!

As for migration assistance... I appreciate the eagerness to further assist. I left our client sites at D8, while our own site is back on D6 since it makes use of the core Blog module which Drupal Core deprecated. I think first to upgrade each client site to the latest D11.4.x, then work on tackling our D6 to D11.4.x migration... anticipating that Blog module will prove challenging to successfully migrate the data.

Also, our site makes use of Taxonomy for site navigation. Many years ago when I was just learning Drupal on 5.x, I came up with an elaborate site navigation system for a huge website we took from a mix of legacy technologies, migrated over to Drupal + CiviCRM + a custom Drupal module to provide SSO to UBB.Threads forum. My silver bullet for migrating the site content which were Drupal pages with Premium module providing teaser previews to anonymous visitors was to:

1) Tag with all appropriate Taxonomy tag keywords the page makes reference to

2) Built Taxonomy queries with AND'ing of the various tag keywords

3) Embed those Taxonomy query URL's into content rich URL Aliases for search engine munchies.

4) Put those resulting URL Aliases onto Drupal menu entries.

The result was content creators could add content, tag the new page with all of the context appropriate Taxonomy tags the new page references, and my above magic would take care of listing that new page on all of the context appropriate places of the Drupal navigation system. The system was a huge success. I think I tried and deleted attempts to migrate the site to Drupal at least twice before arriving at the brilliant creative solution above.... and that is what the site operated successfully on for many years.

We attempted to harvest / migrate the node content from D6 up to D8 already years ago. The Taxonomy tag values did not migrate cleanly to D8. :-( That is where the effort ended. It was as if the Drupal content migrator module was not handling the Taxonomy ID's correctly... A page on D6 tagged one way would arrive on D8 tagged something completely different.

For me, Drupal 5.x and 6.x were the versions I knew best. I did not do much with Drupal 7.x. Migrated the other clients sites onto Drupal 8.x and that has been it for Drupal for several years.

Charge!!! Onto setting up the latest Drush on our server next! I got the latest Composer set up this morning.

I am thankful,