But in my experience it's still an enterprise-grade Frankenstein's Monster, and the developer experience is pretty bad compared with other frameworks I've used. If I was doing something on the happy path, it mostly worked. But the moment I tried to do something slightly different than they expected, I was 20 frames deep into Spring stack traces trying to puzzle out poorly written Spring code. I've done a lot of Java, so I could eventually emerge triumphant. But it was a giant time suck. Looking back on the project, we estimated we could have done it in half the time using something like Rails or Flask.