I understand the depression. I'm a developer (professional) and I make music (ambitious hobby). Both arts heavily in a transformational process.
I'd like to challenge a few things. I rarely have a moment where an LLM provides me a creative spark. It's more that I don't forget anything from the mediocre galaxy of thoughts.
See AI as a tool.
A tool that helps you to automate repetitive cognitive work.
Tightly integrates with my calendar. Easy, keyboard driven divide and conquer for my documents into tasks. Way better than all the other knowledge base apps.
I think you should give it a try. Rails made me a better software architect and showed my the importance of writing expressive elegant code. It might have lost some market share to other techs (Node / Elixir) but it's still the original.
In my opinion your requirements are a little fuzzy. If you're developing a website (no hard database requirements) you could go with something easy as jeykill, middleman or gatsby. If you're developing a web application I would try to evaluate my future needs:
Need #1: Since I don't know what my users will do I need to be agile and quickly adapt to business changes.
Tool #1: Rails - the flexibility of RoR is still unbeatable. Especially if you're a startup this is really a timesaver. Furthermore it's no rocketscience to develop a decent frontend on top using React or Vue.
Need #2: Shitload of people will use my site.
Tool #2: Elixir / Phoenix has kick ass performance and language and framework are well written and thought through.
Need #3: My whole team are frontend devs who just know JavaScript.
Tool #3: Maybe Node.js is for you. In the past I've rarely seen a good Node.js backend project but if you're really disciplined (aka writing a lot of tests) it should be doable.
Need #4: My project is a FinTech and I need to talk to banks.
Tool #4: Java/Scala/Clojure since you'll might talk to these services directly and all of the have JVM based SDKs.
Need #5: I'm a microsoft consultant.
Tool #5: Well then go with C#/F#.
I'd like to challenge a few things. I rarely have a moment where an LLM provides me a creative spark. It's more that I don't forget anything from the mediocre galaxy of thoughts.
See AI as a tool.
A tool that helps you to automate repetitive cognitive work.