[thedavidprice]

You make some great points here!

> I think the real benefit is an increase in the chance that you build your app in a way that's sustainable

Yes, indeed! We discuss "long-term maintainability" often in the project README and during interviews. This is one of the primary lessons Tom learned when building GitHub on Rails.

> ossifies your platform into a fixed point in the hype cycle

We are learning how to communicate these things better, but conventions, tight integration, and a "golden path" do not equate to lock-in of any kind.

If you read through other comments, you'll find a lot of examples where devs are using alternatives for the API as well as front-end libraries.