Your totally right about this, in most occasions. People look for short-cuts and fall in love with novelty shiny magic that appears nice on the surface. but, they don't evaluate the long term costs - that's what kills productivity in the long term: the cost of not understanding what a framework does in certain situations, or how to debug it when it's not working right. with code, you can always step into it and figure out what's going on, not necessarily the case with frameworks.