[skidooer]

You certainly make a valid point, but I must add:

Rails is a fast moving target because they are always looking for new ways to save you time. As I mentioned in a previous post, the Rails 1.0 API is painful compared to the current generation. You are saving massive amounts of time during development because the project has evolved so far.

Spending a few minutes patching a framework bug once every five years pales in comparison to the gains you are seeing in development time.

To each their own, but I'd rather have a framework that is better than have a framework that knows it could be better, but won't make the changes because it might break some several year old app.