Similar situation here. I disagree that frameworks are the problem though. Build tools, especially related to CSS and assets are IMO the biggest issue. TypeScript's support for monorepos could also be better.

Things have improved a lot since 2009 however, IMO. There was barely a concept of modularity at that time, the tools (e.g. AMD / requirejs / r.js) were way worse and managing the state of the DOM was a pain, jQuery or otherwise.