I see your point but I think this is at a level of abstraction that Rails never set out to solve.
Rails is arguably “technology batteries included”, whereas this is more like “product batteries included”. There are many Rails sites that wouldn’t use these features, however there aren’t many Rails sites that wouldn’t use ActiveRecord or HTML rendering.
> Rails is arguably “technology batteries included”, whereas this is more like “product batteries included”.
This seems like a great way to put it! At the lower level of abstraction, there's all of the technical stuff, but at the higher level of abstraction, you think more about the product and the business domain concepts.
Rails is arguably “technology batteries included”, whereas this is more like “product batteries included”. There are many Rails sites that wouldn’t use these features, however there aren’t many Rails sites that wouldn’t use ActiveRecord or HTML rendering.