One of the keys to cheerfulness is valuing your own experience and in seeing the world as it is, faults and all.

My experience has been that a lot of stuff in the Ruby/Rails (and the Node ecosystem, a thousand times worse) ecosystem is due to well-meaning novices cranking out ever-so-slightly different iterations on the same ideas, cluttering up the package managers with not-quite-right solutions.

That, and a pervasive attitude of convention-over-configuration and self-aggrandizing that tends to place an emphasis on popularity over talent, and on talent over restraint.

I remain cheerful because that culture hasn't yet infected the Elixir community.