I think it's one of the key virtues of the programmer: arrogance. I've worked with engineers who hated frameworks. They saw them as overhead imposed by force o

I think it's one of the key virtues of the programmer: arrogance. I've worked with engineers who hated frameworks. They saw them as overhead imposed by force on everything they did that didn't know or care what they actually needed. Surely it was better and simpler to compose libraries to do what they needed, as they found they needed it. Ultimately, they failed to understand that they needed CSRF protection, security headers, input validation, any kind of meaningful authentication or authorization framework, and so on. In their arrogance, they assumed their insight into their needs complete and total.