your talking only about the default boilerplate. but what yeoman primarily is, is a rails-inspired generator system and you can personalize it and build up you

your talking only about the default boilerplate. but what yeoman primarily is, is a rails-inspired generator system and you can personalize it and build up your own collection of generators. for that it works quite well and better than grunt's own which is simpler. for instance I'm about to write one that clones compass-bootstrap and creates a _variables.scss and a screen.scss and a test page and hooks up guard reload into a grunt watch task. so I can then live tweak a bootstrap setup while looking at my example page (with all elements( and easily comment out all the features I don't want for a given site. other simple generators do things like create a single bootstrap model. or you could have your own personal reset and .scss libs and clone or copy them into any project. you can write your own using the generator that generates default generators. build up your personal collection.