Whilst I would agree that a monolith can run into scalability issues, I am not sure your characterisation of Rails as such is proportionate. To say that Rails'

Whilst I would agree that a monolith can run into scalability issues, I am not sure your characterisation of Rails as such is proportionate. To say that Rails' architecture is a "sigificant barrier for any project beyond the simplest MVPs" is rather hyperbolic, and the list of companies running monolithic Rails apps is a testament to that. On this very topic, I would recommend reading GitLab's own post from 2022 on why they are sticking with a Rails monolith[1]. [1] - https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/07/06/why-were-sticking-with-ruby-on-rails/ https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/07/06/why-were-sticking-w...