Small and composable things that are popular and well tested is great. That is not what you get from something like the wild-west of node. Perhaps your ideal is

Small and composable things that are popular and well tested is great. That is not what you get from something like the wild-west of node. Perhaps your ideal is Linux, with small composable commands. How many of those commands copy or move a file? Pretty much one - that's because lots of unexpected things go wrong, and we need one good implementation instead of 500 shitty ones. Rails is actually moving towards being a pre-installed collection of small composable things, much like a *nix distribution. Small and composable is great. Everyone implementing cp is not.