This paints with an overly broad brush. It almost sounds like you're comparing Rails with the alternative of using no framework at all, but that's not the right comparison. I would probably agree with you if you had admonished people against bothering with any framework that hasn't been influenced by Rails. But most of its best ideas have filtered out into all the other ecosystems, and there are now very credible alternatives for lots of different stacks and some of those alternatives even perform better than Rails for different common use cases.