That sounds an awful lot like the scaling argument for PHP... just because a lot of people use something doesn't mean it does everything better than anything el

That sounds an awful lot like the scaling argument for PHP... just because a lot of people use something doesn't mean it does everything better than anything else. A project doesn't have to satisfy some snarky definition of "unique" to have different requirements and optimal paradigms than other projects. Also, the idea that if it doesn't work for you means you're doing it wrong is disingenuous at best. People have different ideas about what things a framework should or shouldn't do, and how it should or shouldn't do them. That doesn't make them wrong or you right.