Kind of shocked this is getting downvoted. Look, this isn't about X being better than Y, it's simply the fact that there are now a litany of other technologies

Kind of shocked this is getting downvoted. Look, this isn't about X being better than Y, it's simply the fact that there are now a litany of other technologies to grab people's interest. In the aughts, I watched Rails' meteoric rise: it was revolutionary and had few equals. Rails shifted the conversation away from baroque, enterprise-y frameworks towards tools that provided real developer productivity.