One of the reasons Rails happened in the way it did was due to many non-coders embracing it early and questioning why programming for web had to be done the way

One of the reasons Rails happened in the way it did was due to many non-coders embracing it early and questioning why programming for web had to be done the way it was ... you would meet people at early Ruby events with background in arts and such ... many of which went on to succeed massively and ended up having to retrospectively get deep into classical CS theory to deal with performance challenges