Honestly, and it’s a meme at this point, I think it’s the best choice. Nothing to so with how much I like it. You can just get things done SO quickly. And with the focus on convention, that first attempt is an awful lot better than in other frameworks. You really can get done in a few hours what has previously taken days. I don’t think it’s entirely coincidence that a pretty big proportion of the biggest winners of the 2000-10s internet gold rush either started out with (and a lot still are using) Rails. If you’re more agile with a smaller team, it’s a benefit to any business. The scale argument is overblown, but also fewer devs being more productive is much more important than relatively minor increases in infrastructure cost