I must second this. I've always viewed frameworks as a joy to my work, as long as there is no magic involved. I develop quite a few mini apps and I find less op

I must second this. I've always viewed frameworks as a joy to my work, as long as there is no magic involved. I develop quite a few mini apps and I find less opinionated frameworks like Express for Node or Flask for Python an absolute dream. The packages on Node can get unwieldy but nothing bad enough to warrant a long term negative outlook.