>I don’t mean to downplay the humongous effort that goes into building any framework that doesn’t suck. I think you captured something I've been mulling about

>I don’t mean to downplay the humongous effort that goes into building any framework that doesn’t suck. I think you captured something I've been mulling about recently. The perception of software quality should be on an inverted scale, like incident severity where zero is the worst possible outcome. Software can't be better then "works well, has little accidental complexity". But it can be much worse than that. People rave about pieces of software that do their job and get out of the way because they're so rare, and not because they are magical unicorns that cook you breakfast and give you massages. But because they fulfill expectations at a reasonable cost.