It has been heartening to read so many of the comments here pointing how absurd web development has become with the endlessly more rigid frameworks prescribing their world view onto the developer, effectively reducing them to module install muppets, rather than empowered developers.
It's incredibly stifling once you get experience under your belt. FWIW, I think Rails has a great design aesthetic, and yet it feels like a straightjacket once I get near it. I want to just write Ruby.
