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The most used frameworks are always the most complained about.

It's an easy mistake to think that means they're the worst.

While that's true, why don't we see this sort of stuff with Django or Flask?

Of course we see people complain about these tools, but my impression is that people who end up leaving those communities are rarely because of community issues (more like "I'm going to do some Go instead"-style things)

Surely something is different. It's not like Django is unused...

Rails is at least an order of magnitude more widespread than Django/Laravel/any of its imitators. If you take a swing at any of the follow-ons, its proponents will invariably say it's just doing what Rails does. Try to imagine a "Why Django sucks" flamepost garnering anywhere near the attention that the same does for Rails... yeah, won't happen.

Rails is several percentage points more widespread than Django, but far from any order of magnitude.

I always disagree with "always". I think Django and Flask in python world are used a lot, and didn't notice a flood of complains about them.

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