I think that's the whole point though. It used to be that you could be a Rails dev with very little Ruby experience. Now, that's not the case.

It's great to advance, but when you start out as being quick and easy to get started in then everyone starts progressing you can easily forget that it's taken years as a community to get to this point. If you're not careful, as a community, you end up leaving the newbies always playing catch up instead of providing them a helping hand to get started.