I've seen this a few times with projects I've worked on. I think what it comes down to is this: "despite the trouble I had with feature x, did the framework sav

I've seen this a few times with projects I've worked on. I think what it comes down to is this: "despite the trouble I had with feature x, did the framework save me time and effort because 90% of the work (i.e boilerplate) was done for me". If the answer is no, then using a framework was probably a mistake. However, for 99% of web applications, I don't think the answer to this question is a no.