I'd argue that you're analogy is broken. Yes, frameworks are built from the basics and novels are built from an alphabet. However, Frameworks reduce relative

I'd argue that you're analogy is broken. Yes, frameworks are built from the basics and novels are built from an alphabet. However, Frameworks reduce relative complexity, increasing their audience. Novels actually have an increased relative complexity reducing their audience. While, its hard to find good analogies outside software development, it might be more correct to say: if javascript is the alphabet, then React is a picture book. Picture books lowering the relative complexity, allow literate and illiterate people alike to mostly understand a story. Here its easier to see that the Framework (pictures) help novices (the illiterate, i.e. children), as soon as possible, to become independent and productive (understand the story). There is also the added benefit that exposure to both words and pictures simultaneously allows for an understanding of the alphabet and grammar, i.e. helps the learning process.