I’ve been having similar thoughts recently 
Elixir is introducing and making easy so many fantastic ‘best practices’ which have been slowly answering my burning curiosity of “surely there is a better way of developing???” that I frequently had when I was using Rails.
Things like easily being able to build your app as a series of components, or preferring not to use if/else’s (and multiple function defs with pattern matching instead) meaning functions do one thing 
