Your comment comes off as haughty to me, as if you were saying that if you choose not to use a framework like Django its because you want to have a "handcrafted

Your comment comes off as haughty to me, as if you were saying that if you choose not to use a framework like Django its because you want to have a "handcrafted product" and because you don't care about "producing cool stuff", which sounds like a textbook definition of a bad (unproductive) programmer. I assure you it's not, not using frameworks can also be a purely pragmatic choice. If you deviate from their intended use, they can very quickly become an annoyance instead of a time gainer.