The rise and fall of Builders

[Felix Bembrick]

I was not privy to the original discussion but I am lead to believe that 
Builders are no longer considered fashionable and that we are advised not to 
use them.

While I realise that every type of Node basically needed its own Builder, could 
someone please outline why this situation has arisen?  Is it something to do 
with "fluent APIs" themselves or some other reason?

Thanks,

Felix