To be clear, your choices are:
Build system, Language, Spring version, Java packaging, Java version
The rest is naming.
That is not complex to me.
As for the dependency options... well, they are dependency options. I'm sure you have no problem with adding gems to a rails project, even though there are thousands of them that may be mutually exclusive! A non-ruby dev might not know which gem they want and would have no way of knowing what they want or why!
rails new myapp is exactly the same as doing this with no dependencies.
Re:When Should You Not Use Rails?
by ben940830298432 on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @05:11PM
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If you want something more built out from the start you could use https://www.jhipster.tech
That doesn't seem easy at all. Immediately I am presented with 5 choices and then a list of 50 things that I might want to add to my application. Some of those 50 choices seem to be mutually exclusive and I don't have any way of knowing which I might want or why.
Rails? Just rails new myapp.