Yup, Drupal does look very messy for some reason. Tried setting it up locally a while ago and nearly put my foot through the screen. In fairness I hadn't a notion what I was doing at the time so it was probably largely my fault but it still left a nasty feeling.

Sadly no real experience with either and I'm foolishly telling myself "sure how hard can it be, should take a day to set up...tops". I'm going to have a proper look at Lyceum I think and then report back. Maybe even write something useful about the experience if I get it all working