In my personal experience, with any non-trivial application with continued (read as multiple years) of development frameworks tend to get in the way (I want to

In my personal experience, with any non-trivial application with continued (read as multiple years) of development frameworks tend to get in the way (I want to do this, but the framework wants me to do that even though this is better for my use case). Building your own "framework" from a good collection of libraries tends to not have this problem. Also, if it does have that problem (this library is getting in my way) you can usually more easily exchange the library for a different one. Note that developers tend to disagree on the definition of framework. When I say framework i'm saying something like Rails or Django that is a big monolithic thing that your application is built upon.