True, but in my experience a lot of younger developers have been trained to think in frameworks all the way, with the result of growing a dangerous fondness for

True, but in my experience a lot of younger developers have been trained to think in frameworks all the way, with the result of growing a dangerous fondness for unnecessary complexity. To them, I feel, turning something easy into an opaque mess that the client is of course too dumb too appreciate, let alone understand, is a sign of quality and somehow a matter of pride. For the aforementioned project, that I could have built up in three days with HTML + CSS + some js sprinkled on top for effects, it took them a month and a half, and then he bailed on minor Cosmetic changes because “the allotted time was over”. The client was literally fooled into spending more for this bullshit.