The framework problem is a real interesting one... I'm a hobbyist--I am not employed as a web developer, but I like too experiment and see what I can create, so

The framework problem is a real interesting one... I'm a hobbyist--I am not employed as a web developer, but I like too experiment and see what I can create, so for me, learning a new framework is always a fun little project to embark on. At the same time, i can't imagine how hellish it would be to work for a company that always wants to use the latest technology -- the framework market seems saturated to me, and I would wager it's probably better for a company to find a few technologies and stick to them, tackling problems/weak points as they arise and brewing custom solutions for those if necessary. Having to stop and shift over to a new framework every now and then seems like it would be a massive productivity hit. I also don't like it when a framework becomes a crutch. Though I don't think that happens too often for most people. I've also run into the heavy weight problem -- there have been a few instance where I've wanted to create something simple, and in most cases using a framework in that situation becomes the very definition of over kill. So instead I'll usually just write a simple php script or something to do whatever I need to get done, but even that feels a bit unnecessary. While I'm not sure if javascript should be elevated to all the use cases it has been recently, I do think it should be a language that enables a developer to natively(that is to say, w/o a framework) handle any simple functionality that might be expected for a site that is just a little bit fancier than a static site, so handling very simple data such as bare-bones blog or a simple mailing system. While it is getting there you still can't do something like write a simple form based mailer in pure js as far as I know, you can only open the client's native mailing app. You'd have to write a single php file or some other mechanism for that simple purpose. But yeah, it seems like bloat is a tricky thing to avoid these days, especially since frameworks are the easiest, usually most error proof, and quickest way to get your website full of some modern bells and whistles, when in reality you may only be putting half of the technologies features to use.