I'd rather have semi-painful upgrades if it means making progress and not being stuck with a horrible base of a product. Being stuck with bad design decisions

I'd rather have semi-painful upgrades if it means making progress and not being stuck with a horrible base of a product. Being stuck with bad design decisions because the framework core team is too busy worrying about making incompatible changes and moving at a snail's pace for new features is exactly how you become obsolete. For some reason large changes in society rarely happen until entire generations of people die. Things move so slowly because people somehow fear change. I for one love rails because I know the core team will make big changes if it's clearly for the better without worrying about pissing people off because in the end it's obviously the correct move.