I still don't get why people use these form helper gems. We recently rewrote the views for one of our Rails apps and we used SimpleForm with its Bootstrap wrap

I still don't get why people use these form helper gems. We recently rewrote the views for one of our Rails apps and we used SimpleForm with its Bootstrap wrappers. We compared some of the new form views to the old views, and the new views had around 80% less code. we've spent more time fighting them in complex cases A form builder need not be used for every form. Most of our forms use SimpleForm, but not all of them do.