Well, this comment just comes across as sour grapes to me. You could be criticising any memory managed programming language. Old timers have been complaining about the kids not knowing about assembly, registers, punch cards, valves, etc since computers were invented.

As for "incompetent design" - I don't know what you are on about. I think that Rails 3 is a frigging triumph of elegant, modular design. There are very many gems in the ruby ecosystem that I believe any unbiased person would say demonstrate exemplary design. In fact, I would say that the average rubyist is much more concerned with good design than, say, your average java dev. The whole reason I switched to ruby was because of the beauty of the language. And what is beauty but good design applied?

Of course there are always exceptions but on the whole I think this comment is quite unfair.