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There's a certain type of programmers that hates frameworks, and instead wants barebones, highly hackable, minimalistic non-frameworks.

In any large project they end up with a poorly designed, single-use reimplementation of large parts of the more fully-featured frameworks.
There's a lot of thought and effort that go into large frameworks. You can't invest 0.01% of the effort & brain power and expect to come out on top.

The best developers are those that know how to capitalize on collective past efforts. Those that stand on the shoulders of giants.
You don't need to solve problems that are already solved, just because you don't 100% like or understand the built-in solutions. A good framework will get the known problems out of the way to let you focus on what you're really trying to achieve.
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