> Doing something only you understand and only you can maintain Having worked with both kinds of application, I personally find it much easier to learn my way

> Doing something only you understand and only you can maintain Having worked with both kinds of application, I personally find it much easier to learn my way around and understand a self-contained application than one which is a giant web of moving-target third party dependencies and frameworks, themselves largely undocumented and subject to the framework-hipster "move fast and break your users' things" mentality.