A big benefit of how opinionated frameworks preempt debates about marginal issues is that it's an externally imposed decision, instead of one team member triump

A big benefit of how opinionated frameworks preempt debates about marginal issues is that it's an externally imposed decision, instead of one team member triumphing over the others. It really helps team cohesion for DHH to tell you that you're using X instead of Y as opposed to the most domineering devs getting their way every time. In my mind this even compensates for some suboptimal choices Rails may make.