i been messing with Laravel lately, and it's ass. and/or the entire modern stack is ass. i actually had this app built for me, and i asked the dev to try to str

i been messing with Laravel lately, and it's ass. and/or the entire modern stack is ass. i actually had this app built for me, and i asked the dev to try to strip out as much shit as possible, including, obviously, tailwind. dev did a good job, but it's still a disaster. flask looks like a dream comparatively. but. is there a middle ground? i was a product manager-type on a (python) pylons pyramid project -- https://trypyramid.com/ https://trypyramid.com/ -- "the start small, finish big, stay finished framework" -- the message sounds good. seemed fine, but i wasn't a dev on it, and we still had plenty of moving parts for what was a relatively simple e-commerce cms (that, admittedly, had a lot of functionality). what i really want is a straightjacket -- some framework that says, 'oh, you want to plug in a different templating engine? how about fuck you? will fuck you work for you?' but i guess that doesn't earn many github stars. if i had to pick one or recommend one with no other qualifiers, i'd pick sinatra. that way i could do it my way.