I used to love Drupal so much back in the early 2000s. Back then the Fields "plugin" and corresponding Views "plugin" for querying and displaying fields were must-haves. As Scott says those have now been baked into Drupal core for more than a decade.

Fields definitely aren't baked into WordPress but they should be. (Extra credit if someone could port the Drupal Views module as well. 10+ years later I still miss that functionality.)

I completely endorse Scott's initiative!