The single most important part of rails is the orm. That, honestly, seems to be the "thing" that people are actually getting excited about when they gush over

The single most important part of rails is the orm. That, honestly, seems to be the "thing" that people are actually getting excited about when they gush over rails. A close second would be rspec. Finally, in production, it can be very helpful to be able to inspect the state of the db using the rails console (as long as the developer is wise enough to sandbox their actions). I find the tooling (I use vim with solargraph) to be not only underwhelming but frustrating. No I am not willing to use a different editor. Rails code is not at all discoverable because I cannot follow method calls/objects half of the time. In order to alleviate this, I suppose, rails tries very hard to standardize things. Ok. Fine. The ease of creating model relationships can also produce a nasty set of relationships between tables if you are not careful. One project I worked on used the fast_jsonapi where one table had relationships spanning most of the system. Dealing with that was borderline ridiculous.