Nah, not really. It depends on a lot of parameters. First of all you conflate fat with monolithic, which is not necessarily the case. I think that Django is a

Nah, not really. It depends on a lot of parameters. First of all you conflate fat with monolithic, which is not necessarily the case. I think that Django is a good example of this. It's a batteries-included framework, but its architecture allows you to strip or replace parts of it. Sometimes it's easier to start from a fat framework and "prune" your way to where you want to go, than instead re-invent the whole universe. Above all, again, it depends.