This attitude, the illusion that RoR is year zero in software development is the #1 reason why Rails has become toxic for many companies.

Hordes of hipster RoR developers making the same mistakes all over again because they refuse to learn from mistakes already made by others. Turning project after project into an unmanageable mess with a marginal life expectancy because they believe their superior elegant language and one-size-fits-all opinionated framework means they don't have to think about architecture and design.

In all my years I've never seen a developer movement piss away its initial success so rapidly as the Rails community.

> What Rails is to Laravel, Sinatra is to lumen. Nothing more than another copycat idea from the ruby/rails world.

I must be misunderstanding your point, because the way I read what you wrote, you are insinuating that incorporating good ideas already implemented in a different incompatible technology stack is worthless.

E.g. making a good text editor for windows is worthless because vim/emacs exists, or making a python library for parsing HTML is worthless because there is already a perl one?