The abstraction hasn’t hindered me much and I work on a monolith. One problem I have faced is when the amount of database queries on a page explodes it becomes

The abstraction hasn’t hindered me much and I work on a monolith. One problem I have faced is when the amount of database queries on a page explodes it becomes hard to optimize without caching. I would prefer to avoid caching but that doesn’t appear to be the rails way (and for obvious reasons). Also, at a company with a Rails app you do sometimes get other sources and processes polluting your Rails app. And when that happens you can’t utilize the efficiencies that rails provides.