Couldn't you do the same with RSpec or straight Capybara code?
I no longer see the added value of Cucumber when you work in a project that has no non-technical team members writing tests.
I no longer see the added value of Cucumber when you work in a project that has no non-technical team members writing tests.
I can read it to them, or we could collaborate on a user story that doesn't get directly mapped to tests, but then we have room for the interpretation/translation process to create the wrong assumptions in the test code.
There are plenty of tests I'd never show the customer because they involve implementation details, and those aren't going to be written in Gherkin because I don't hate myself enough to juggle that many regexps.