I agree. I was playing devil's advocate to an extent. At the time Rails was the first modern MVC framework as we understand it. > Rails was highly productive,

I agree. I was playing devil's advocate to an extent. At the time Rails was the first modern MVC framework as we understand it. > Rails was highly productive,the problem is that the concept of the service makes scaling non-trivial. Didn't they rewrite everything in PHP during the last 2000s due to Rails at the time just not being able to scale?