No, that is not the point of a framework at all. I am absolutely shocked that you would present it as though the options are "blindly do stuff automagically" v

No, that is not the point of a framework at all. I am absolutely shocked that you would present it as though the options are "blindly do stuff automagically" vs "write everything from scratch". A framework is more useful if I control it, not less useful. If you want to give me the ability to parse yaml from GET params, then give me a parse_yaml_from_get_params_with_a_really_long_rails_function_name() function to do it with. Don't just do it all the time in case I might want it. You don't need to automatically run a feature in order for the feature to exist, be used, and be useful.