Yes, this. There's a reason I avoid complex abstraction layers that helpfully "hide" the underlying platform from me. So, yes, in my hobby project that's a serv

Yes, this. There's a reason I avoid complex abstraction layers that helpfully "hide" the underlying platform from me. So, yes, in my hobby project that's a server application in Java, I use a simple, easy to understand micro-framework (sparkjava.com), a simple template engine (pebble), and a homebrew SQL query builder on the backend, and vanilla JS (compiled from TypeScript) on the frontend. Every dependency is a liability, especially the kind you can't remove without rewriting your entire project. Adding a library to my project is a very serious thing for me.