My experience has been the opposite, especially since Rails has included more batteries over the years. You need fewer non-Rails-default dependencies than ever, and the upgrade process has gotten easier every major version.
Rails is way more stable and mature these days. Keeping up to date is definitely easier. Probably 10x easier than a Node/JS project which will have far more churn.
Rails is way more stable and mature these days. Keeping up to date is definitely easier. Probably 10x easier than a Node/JS project which will have far more churn.