Building content types is much more powerful with Drupal 8 core: you can define view modes, form modes and many field types like e-mail, entity reference etc have been integrated Full translation capabilities: thanks to #d8mi you don't need a dozen of i18n modules, but Drupal 8 core ships with configuration, content & interface translation WYSIWYG editing functionality is part of core and just works Views in Core: we can create dynamic listings Enhanced block system: we can even reference blocks using entity reference now