Rails is an open source web development framework that excels in productivity by coming with smart defaults for people to use to get up and running quickly.

Rails already integrates with webpack, and you can certainly implement your own integrations to further advance things - and you can turn around and make this a gem for others to use, or contribute it to core if its something more fundamental.

But for the most part, the people behind RoR are pretty happy using RoR for their development, and don't need to use React or Vue for a majority of what they do.

React and vue are great for creating interactive widgets (no flash anymore). it doesnt’t mean necessarily to change how we code :)

They have improved the integration with Webpacker, but also bear in mind if you don't use the HTML/UI type functionality in Rails, it's a lot less compelling. I'm assuming DHH/RoR is sensitive to that hence these solutions like TurboLinks, Stimulus, etc that still use server rendered HTML.

Definitely agree. What would be really great is an easy way to symc the status between client and server, with generators for the api and a client library to manage the status which could then be used with react or any other similar front end framework.