[hakunin]

I don't think this is quite right. I've done a survey a few months ago when deciding what to use for a new project (primarily comparing Ruby and Go). What I saw was many people rallying around the top useful libs out there. I also saw numerous brand new libs showing up, fixing mistakes of their predecessors. And each time I compared a popular Ruby project with a popular Go one, I'd find consistent activity from multiple maintainers in the former. And a lot of initial activity that completely dies down in the latter.

The overall feeling I got is that Ruby on Rails has gotten a lot more "getting shit done", "don't waste time" mode, — many businesses depend on it. Libs became higher quality compared to the early playful years.