[drewolson]

This whole "framework fatigue" thing is going reductio ad absurdum. Convenience is not bad. _Too_ much convenience traded for opacity is bad.

As someone with a Phoenix app running in production, I can tell you that this framework hits the sweet spot of providing lots of value without requiring the user to learn too much. The abstractions it provides, especially the router and rendering layers, are very welcome. And I'm saying this from the perspective of someone who has built a few smaller vanilla plug applications.

Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water here just because rails went a little too far with the magic.