Burnt in the sense that businesses hired people who claimed to have solid development experience, who claimed they could build robust maintainable systems, who

Burnt in the sense that businesses hired people who claimed to have solid development experience, who claimed they could build robust maintainable systems, who claimed they could solve real business problems, who then turned out to be a lot less spectacular or solid than first thought, who believed the solution to every problem or design phase was to simply add more gems into the mix, who changed the whole state of the codebase because one luminary in the ruby world posted a blog article about how the hot thing on that day was to use pattern x instead of pattern y for designing your models vs controllers. Most businesses are technology agnostic - they don't care what we use, if, if we deliver robust technically sound solutions. But when they trust developers, who fail to deliver, they mark the technology choice as well, to avoid getting similar problems in the future.