As a someone who walked away from Drupal to use EE, I compare Drupal to EE as such: In Drupal I wrapped my design around the CMS (drupal); in EE I injected the CMS into the my design. My code is cleaner (no View module divitus) and I don't have to constantly wonder if the module I'm using will we deprecated. And if I get stuck the forums seem more helpful than Drupals.
As a print designer/web hobbiest I don't have to spend a lot of time learning PHP and mySQL queries. With EE's Tag/Variable/Parameter paradigm and the Query module I don't have to. And the documentation for EE is one of it's strength. For the non-techi http://api.drupal.org/ is very confusing.
Nice comparison