I dare to disagree. My point about DM being killed by Merb/Rails merge was about what happened back in 2008 with its consequences through all the years. I'm talking about DM1 specifically, if Merb survived and DM could grow with it we would be in a different place now already.

As far as our DM2 efforts go, this really didn't end so bad. rom-rb is growing very fast and we're already in the process of making it easy to use for typical CRUD stuff. Hanami integration will help here a lot too.