What most Rails applications are

“Proudly found elsewhere — The opposite of not invented here is proudly found elsewhere. This leads to a framework frenzy, where no piece of code can be developed; the focus is always on analyzing and choosing an existing library or component that contains the feature. Developing a system becomes a scrapheap challenge, where the system is built by fitting together different libraries that do what’s needed and a million things more. Navigating and improving such a system is always difficult because the libraries are entangled with the system and just penetrating such a system means wading through unnecessary complexity.” — The Mikado Method by Ola Ellnestam and Daniel Brolund