This post is way too depressing. There's nothing in his post suggesting that the way he developed is harder for someone else to pick it up. MVC Frameworks aren

This post is way too depressing. There's nothing in his post suggesting that the way he developed is harder for someone else to pick it up. MVC Frameworks aren't necessarily easier to use than vanilla PHP. Your answer reminds me of people who don't know how to use vanilla JavaScript and have to add jQuery to the project for things that could be one-liners in vanilla JS. The whole "what if the customer needs something in the future" is just a piss-poor excuse that bad developers make to prematurely optimize. There's nothing in an MVC framework that makes it easier to add new features. There is nothing preventing him from using official libraries for Stripe or Google Maps if needed. There is nothing preventing him from using libraries that can be updated, probably with a single CLI command. There is nothing suggesting his system is unsafe. Quite the contrary. He didn't outsmart the entire industry. He just built something that works without relying on your favorite tool. Maybe you should try someday, you might actually learn something.