[crabsand]

"I couldn't horseshoe a hard systems language to replace a web framework for a CRUD app written with soft language, so I had to go back"

Rails is very good until you need to go off rails. Even in that case rewrites must be partial and not to aim to fully replace the original. Most of the time rewrites are a waste of time. This article could be true if you s/Rust/Ruby and tell the story in the opposite direction.