There is a tradeoff between speed of development and degree of customizability when it comes to frameworks. With CloudTunes, I was going for a highly-customized

There is a tradeoff between speed of development and degree of customizability when it comes to frameworks. With CloudTunes, I was going for a highly-customized and performant UI, and at some point it simply became easier to go back down by one layer of abstraction and build it just with Backbone instead.