You're right, but frameworks like Blitzjs (built on top of Nextjs) and NestJS are probably better comparisons. I went in the opposite direction from Ruby to Nod

You're right, but frameworks like Blitzjs (built on top of Nextjs) and NestJS are probably better comparisons. I went in the opposite direction from Ruby to Node land, and it's just as easy and quick to build an app now just like Rails. The issue with nodejs is the paradox of choice. Just like in Java, there are so many full stack frameworks to choose from that it's easy to get decision paralysis, where as there's only really one choice in both Ruby and Python.