The "Rails Way" doesn't work at all, and in fact hinders understanding, when a new developer doesn't know the Rails conventions. If you're happy to exist and hire within one ecosystem that can be fine. Otherwise it's disastrous.
The alternative is living in a microcosm of your own product/company, as the rest of the world is the wild west with no purported conventions at all. So even if it's a disaster, it's a better disaster than not having recognizable conventions that anyone outside of your company is aware of.
And I say this as someone who originally live-edited PHP sites over FTP on apache in the early 00s. Convention is everything.
Rails can be quite a disaster, but it has some solid conventions on app structure, routing, and security. It's not that Rails is great, it's that having conventions and sane defaults that get you somewhere instead of nowhere is better than not having them. No other major popular framework that I'm aware of has any real conventions on app structure or on any of the core things that 99% of apps need anyway, so everyone is out there re-inventing the wheel.
In most frameworks, you get almost nothing included by default, and have to make key decisions on things like how will you encrypt cookies, how will you do CSRF protection, and sometimes even more basic things like how will you do routing. This has led to rampant security vulnerabilities reminiscent of the PHP days of yore imo. Productivity-wise this has made it impossible to get anything done, because the second you go to work for a new company, you end up having to help them re-implement basic processes like integration testing, CI, app structure, because everyone in the wild is just flying by the seat of their pants and making it up based on their limited experience and knowledge. "Oh, we just copy paste this boiler-plate and manually load SQL files for our migration system" "What's CSRF?" "What do you mean having separate environments for development, testing, staging, and production?" "Oh, we kept getting that CORS error so we just added a wildcard and it went away" etc etc
