As someone who loves Rails, I'd hate to think that.

Yup - I'm amazed. The Rails community has gotten some flack for this kind of issue before, but rather than listen to the criticism and learn from it, they make the same mistake over and over.

It's as if they feel that Rails is a direct product of their personalities, and that because Rails is so successful, anything they do is vindicated by that success. That's just the wrong approach.

And this is why I loved merb and I'm still not sure the merge was a good thing....