askyourmother, while you're busy putting down other communities and folks' hardwork, we'll continue building the future. Comments like these aren't welcome and add zero value to the conversation.
And yes, phoenix will end up bogged down like Rails, and hex will end up chock full of crap, it is the Rails developer mentality I'm afraid, they just can't help themselves.
I like to think of Phoenix as an interface to my app. It's less intrusive than Rails.
You don't have to use Ecto (the "ORM" thingy that is actually not an ORM) to get get the full power of Phoenix, it's also decoupled.
Regarding Hex, it's like every package managers out there. Sure you can publish anything. Rubygem is full of crap, npm is full of crap etc.. But I can also find some very small and focused libraries that wouldn't have been published, had a quality filter been setup to publish anything.