I’m glad someone called this out. “Let’s just use vanilla rails” — sure, except basically every version of rails for the past 5 years has decided to completely change how they do JS.

So many gems are also still built on sprockets — even when you want to use the “rails” way, you are stuck now with a hodgepodge of JS anyways.

It’s a mess — maybe one day we’ll get it fixed, but don’t pretend it’s not partially rails fault as well.