This is an extremely short sighted article. It points out potential weaknesses of frameworks and then concludes unilaterally that they should never be used. This doesn't help anyone. Without the Rails framework my job would be significantly harder since I'd have to piece together several libraries for ORM, HTTP requests, DB Connections, etc. This would be significantly more cumbersome than just using a framework, since any one of those libraries could go defunct just like a framework could. My only other option if I can't use a framework is to write my own implementation of _every single core feature_ of rails. No thank you.

Use frameworks when they are appropriate, stand on the shoulders of others who have made significant contributions to the community.