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I'm afraid you're being terribly optimistic. I'm not totally sure how many millions of people, in absolute numbers, are even competent developers. Out of those,

• Silhouette 9y ago
  Well, yes, there are plenty of incompetent developers too, as there always have been since development broke out of its earliest new-and-specialised-job days. Even so, the idea that not using a framework automatically means you'll produce some poor imitation instead is laughable. The history of software development is replete with examples of people succeeding without those frameworks. We've built countless UIs that way that were much bigger and more complicated than anyone has ever built with Angular or whatever this week's flavour of JS framework is. Maybe there are only thousands of developers working in the web industry who could do it rather than millions. I'm not sure that undermines my real point, since you'd only need a handful of decent devs to make and maintain almost any web front-end I've ever seen. I suspect the true problem is that for various reasons we lose a lot of that experience and skill from the industry far earlier than we should, and then yet another young generation of developers who haven't studied history are doomed to repeat it, badly.