It&#x27;s not Rails. Web software development in general has simply plateaued across the board.<p>We&#x27;re out of new frontiers to innovate around and the work from now on is about playing custodian to the innovations of the past.<p>Unless something spectacularly interesting comes along, the priorities of the web are now all about supporting what&#x27;s already been built. Either by maintaining something hastily built and cracking at the seams with patches and fresh coats of paint - or replacing it with something more stable for the long haul. Rails was designed around rapid innovation, not the long haul. So it&#x27;s in maintenance mode.