"It's a bloated meta framework that requires enormous amounts of peripheral knowledge to understand." Unfortunately I think that might be because web developme

"It's a bloated meta framework that requires enormous amounts of peripheral knowledge to understand." Unfortunately I think that might be because web development requires enormous amounts of peripheral knowledge to understand. It might be overkill for the first prototype of a new web app, but after a while that web app will probably acquire lots of peripheral hacks, too.