It really is difficult to get used to Grails.
Is "copy paste" really that EVIL that we must obliterate it from the programmers tool kit?
I could have copy pasted my way to a CRUD ten times faster, then trying to manage it with Grails.
It took my co-workers a lot of time to figure out "cascading" and critical ORM concepts.
I find myself regenerating views, and copy pasting my changes back in, every time I want to change the domain class.
Just doesn't feel like a mature Web Framework.