The one thing I do value from frameworks - especially in an unfamiliar domain - is that they teach me how to structure things. I can usually patch functionalit

The one thing I do value from frameworks - especially in an unfamiliar domain - is that they teach me how to structure things. I can usually patch functionality together from various sources but understanding how to break a process down if you haven't done it before is often very challenging. For example - Django taught me how to structure server-side code that needed to handle input from both a database and a browser and potentially an API in a way that keeps things nicely layered. I'd done all this before with PHP but my architecture was a dogs dinner. I could structure my own code nicely now - but only because of the experience I gained from using an opinionated framework.