I think that's why frameworks are so popular: They extensively constrain the solution space. Folks lament their usefulness. ("You don't need React for that! Jus

I think that's why frameworks are so popular: They extensively constrain the solution space. Folks lament their usefulness. ("You don't need React for that! Just use jQuery.", "Why not use raw SQL instead of an ORM?") I don't mean to belittle framework criticisms. Leaky abstractions, over-engineering, and peculiar implementations encouraged by a framework's model are legitimate commonplace warts. We've seemingly converged on these super-APIs because flowing through such a narrow (but not too narrow!) solution space is worth the relatively minor headaches.