Watch: Improvements in future Rails may make it possible to do most of what we do here with Rails

[jrochkind]

If everything in this ticket had been here when we started (Back in Rails 4.2!!!) -- this gem would be much smaller, or maybe wouldn't need to exist?

We may want to hold off on any major refactors until we see how all this below shakes out, may result in wanting major refactors here to make this possibly a much thinner layer on top of ActiveRecord/ActiveModel features. They are implementing a lot of what we implemented here, it looks to me.

rails/rails#50568

[jrochkind]

Did not make it into Rails 8!

I am thinking nobody is actually working on these Rails API improvements anymore, despite original excitement.