Honestly this type of workflow is what I love(d) about rails. ERB is a nice enough templating language such that most trivial functionality is pretty much HTML,

Honestly this type of workflow is what I love(d) about rails. ERB is a nice enough templating language such that most trivial functionality is pretty much HTML, but dynamic content can be added in in a php-like way. Equally 'jammable' is the server side code as well - Database is abstracted away, and all server side APIs and application code is all the same ol' Ruby. Django is similar with their own system for python, and equally easy to use. These web frameworks were exceedingly popular at one point, to the point where when node came along, along came express.js with it touted as "rails for node". But aside from rails itself, and possibly django, and php in a more minimal sense, there really isn't this kind of thing anymore? Why did we abandon it? I guess the common criticism is "it doesn't scale" but it seemed perfectly fine for me and my needs, and countless others, right up until every major rails project on github was "last updated: 2014". Feels like the rug was pulled out from under our feet. An exodus without cause, an ark without a flood.