I don't deny that they make things easier. But there's a cost to that, sometimes a significant cost. In my experience (and confirmed by others I know--includi

I don't deny that they make things easier. But there's a cost to that, sometimes a significant cost. In my experience (and confirmed by others I know--including the author of the post), frameworks get you to 80% of where you need to go in a project _really_ fast. The next 10% takes a little effort but it's not impossible. But that last 10% is like pulling teeth from a lion. That's because inevitably the project has requirements that the framework designers didn't and couldn't think of. I submit that that last 10% is the reason why OP got more done faster with Vanilla than he could with React.