On more serious note, we can always specify which gems we want to use. This will just bring a lot of negative energy into a fairly positive rails community, it will be a little like MongoDB, it has a use case you should not use it for, but everyone keeps bringing it up. I think it will be similar with rails, with all the ignoramuses will bring this up as a case against rails, where in reality it is not any more bloated then it is now, once you start using it, you would probably add way more gems.