askyourmother, while you're busy putting down other communities and folks' hardwork, we'll continue building the future. Comments like these aren't welcome and add zero value to the conversation.
If you want to rebuild Rails in elixir, go for it. Seems like a wasted opportunity though - to break away from all things Rails.
And yes, phoenix will end up bogged down like Rails, and hex will end up chock full of crap, it is the Rails developer mentality I'm afraid, they just can't help themselves.
Have you tried Phoenix?
I can see some similarities with Rails, but Phoenix's components are way more decoupled. In my current app Phoenix is handling the websocket messaging stuff. All the real logic is handled by Elixir modules and apps that have nothing to do with Phoenix.
I like to think of Phoenix as an interface to my app. It's less intrusive than Rails.
You don't have to use Ecto (the "ORM" thingy that is actually not an ORM) to get get the full power of Phoenix, it's also decoupled.
Regarding Hex, it's like every package managers out there. Sure you can publish anything. Rubygem is full of crap, npm is full of crap etc.. But I can also find some very small and focused libraries that wouldn't have been published, had a quality filter been setup to publish anything.
And yes, phoenix will end up bogged down like Rails, and hex will end up chock full of crap, it is the Rails developer mentality I'm afraid, they just can't help themselves.