Quibble the first: a language is not a framework. Python and Ruby may be "opinionated" in some sense, but they are not opinionated frameworks. The article's complaints about Ruby in particular...

> It dives deeply into the concept of convention-over-configuration, and in doing so, creates a lot of behind the scenes magic that requires a lot of pre-knowledge before using or understanding it well; the true knowledge of its syntax and its behaviors feels more tribalistic to a set of esoteric elders who have taken the time to read the documentation, but is not necessarily friendly to casual beginners.

...are very clearly complaints about Rails. There's a waggish nod to that ("one could say it has gone off the rails"), but convention over configuration and behind-the-scenes magic are attributes of Rails, the framework, not Ruby, the language.

I've noticed this confusion before, to be fair, but it's an important distinction. As someone who genuinely likes Rails but loves Ruby as a scripting language, there are times I think it may have been the worst thing to happen to Ruby. (Well, the second worst, behind Ruby version managers, but I digress.)

Quibble the second: "Linux distros are not opinionated, quite the opposite, with each distro expressing itself slightly differently." I believe you could call those different expressions opinions. :) This little footnote on OSes conflates "opinionated" with "locked in," and while we all may have different definitions of "lock in," those things are not equivalent.