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David Geary writes today about how great Shale will be. It's basically yet another web framework...this time a JSF implementation which will attempt to circumvent the crappiness that is JSF. Fine, whatever. He writes (as any honest person should) that the best web framework out there is Tapestry. But then he says:

Do I use Tapestry? Heck no. I have a mortgage to pay. Besides, I'm so comfortable with JSF that I don't know if it'd be worth the investment for me to switch to Tapestry. Also, JSF already enjoys more industry support and that gap will widen considerably over the next couple years as Tapestry maintains a small but rabid group of followers in a niche market, whereas JSF will dethrone Struts as the reigning king of Java-based WAFs.

Hey, I hear him. I have yet to get a client to agree to let me use Tapestry. But should we just give up and say "hey, we know JSF is a big mess and there's a better alternative out there, but JSF is the standard so let's just go with it?" I imagine he's not alone in this view, but it's very disappointing. If even the coders are becoming conformists, then who's left?