It's true, not using a framework can be very enlightening, it shows the breadth of what you have to implement yourself. It can also sometimes work the other wa

It's true, not using a framework can be very enlightening, it shows the breadth of what you have to implement yourself. It can also sometimes work the other way, and show that the framework is not actually that useful. I had this with Ansible, where going down to raw fabric made my life much, much nicer (yaml is not a great programming language...).