This is the DHH everyone has come to expect, and enjoys reading. The entire premise of rails is based on putting negative light on configuration, this is sort o

This is the DHH everyone has come to expect, and enjoys reading. The entire premise of rails is based on putting negative light on configuration, this is sort of David's M.O. The rails community has come to terms with the lack of pedantically focused programming practices that DHH embodies, however, his whole aura is one of an individual who has experienced extreme success, and therefore he's still an important community asset. He's a thought leader because he has created immense value from his opinions, and his vitriolic opinion of software architecture and abstraction has always existed. You can literally trace this back to RSpec. I still argue OP isn't doing anything to support an opposite opinion, and is simply feeding the perspective that DHH was trying to be inflammatory instead of opinionated.