Depends on your definition of pain. I've found the full stack of Lift features quite accessible, if at times somewhat poorly documented (but the group is quite

Depends on your definition of pain. I've found the full stack of Lift features quite accessible, if at times somewhat poorly documented (but the group is quite excellent for these situations), from the basics to situations where I needed to short-circuit most of the Lift handling pipeline entirely to serve up something specific. As for big projects, well, Foursquare is written in Lift.