[at-fates-hands]

Agreed.

This seems to be the same issue with other frameworks when they get to a point where they have enough adaptation and find out they need to change/update parts of their framework to get it to the next level.

Same thing is happening right now with AngularJS. Been around for a while, had massive adaptation, then they realized they needed to make major changes. Enter pivot to 2.0 which pissed a lot of people off, but the heat is dying down now and people are coming to their senses.

I'm pretty sure at some point React and other frameworks will hit their wall too.

[yawboakye]

Rails didn't hit that wall. Neither will Ember. FYI Ember is introducing new ideas by the second (pods, composable components, components over controllers, DDAU, etc) but the community eagerly awaits and embraces them. I don't know why that is.

[muloka]

Rails forked sometime ago (around 2.0) into Merb then later on merged back into Rails 3.

Similarly Node forked into io.js then later back into Node 4.

[flippyhead]

This is really a fantastic point. It's sometimes as if people think these type of projects exist in isolation and any perceived flaws are permanent. They often fail to appreciate how much the flaws will invoke a response to address them, making them better than they would have been had the flaws never been strongly felt by the community in the first place.