I agree with you that this post does not come to much of a point. However, in my own experience, I had the same sense that Django was more straightforward, simple, and transparent than Rails - just look at the file structure of an empty project, or the baseline implementation of models.

I now work with both professionally, and Django still feels a little more straightforward. The other side of this is that I occasionally find myself wishing for some aspect of Rails "magic" in Django projects.

I also think that the way Rails is implemented (and to a lesser degree, the Ruby language) takes a little more experience and learning to understand in a meaningful way.

"I also think that the way Rails is implemented (and to a lesser degree, the Ruby language) takes a little more experience and learning to understand in a meaningful way."

I think this has a lot to do with the person. Ruby and Python are almost identical technically (relative to other popular languages). I personally found ruby a lot more intuitive, and I used python for a year or two before I tried ruby. I'm sure this is a statement about me, not ruby or python.