At the ripe age of 22, you'll like undergo a number of pivots in your career between embracing frameworks and tossing them out. There is no right answer; someti

At the ripe age of 22, you'll like undergo a number of pivots in your career between embracing frameworks and tossing them out. There is no right answer; sometimes they help, and sometimes they hurt. We can't always predict what the right level of abstraction will be for future problems; today's popular frameworks can either become tomorrow's cruft-laden disasters or its stone-age embarrassments. Likewise, the definition of minimalist changes with the times (see jQuery), and minimalism itself goes into and out of fashion. I happen to like Bootstrap, because I've seen a lot of projects descend into mess and cruft due to poor maintenance; it takes effort to maintain clean conventions, and if a framework dictates those conventions to me, that's one less set of decisions that I and my team have to make. But Bootstrap feels undeniably heavy, and perhaps I'll regret its use later. But for now it makes me faster, and I choose it knowing I'm making a tradeoff.