I don't have examples at hand but I've worked in large Swift, Typescript and Rails codebases over the last seven years and the Rails codebases were the hardest to maintain and had the most errors in production. Have you done extensive work in a strongly typed language?
Yes I did C/C++ and Java in college and kinda hated it. It wasn't web based development work like I do now but I've written a bunch of static code in my life. I also took Spring MVC for a spin more recently and absolutely hated it with a passion.
I think that the Ruby/Rails project you describe was probably classified as "legacy" and the company moved on to newer cooler tech like Swift/Kotlin/Node. That's when the Rails project becomes really fun where no one wants to touch it/improve/refactor anything and it quickly becomes a pile of shit after a few years since every change is done by someone hating that project and hating Ruby. Am I close? Otherwise I can't really understand why a skilled group of Ruby devs couldn't have refactored the thing.
