Kummins' main reasons for not using frameworks include that they: are hard to learn, and this knowledge is generally useless. limit your scope of creativity. increase a project's complexity.

Are frameworks worth it?

In other words, web frameworks may not be necessary, but they are still useful enough to be popular and widely used. This is a trait common to most of the popular web frameworks out there, from React, Angular, Vue, and Ember to style and formatting models like Bootstrap.

Are frameworks hard?

Frameworks are one of the hugest anti-patterns in software development. They're hard to learn. ... You should prefer core-language solutions to small abstractions to small helper libraries to general libraries to frameworks.