sammyjs emulates Sinatra. Sinatra is ad-hoc routing, vs centrally-declarative (e.g. a routing table definition). And although sammy is great, it is also a jack-knife with many plugins, we wanted to move the plugin-like capacity to a higher position in the architecture, which keeps sugarskull simple and focused on routing. I dont think the router is the right place to hang all your functionality from.

`plates` is essentially a loose html-parser. The only reason it exists is because `weld` is too slow right now for mass consumption. `plates` is intended to ensure that developers have a way to template without DSLs since a lot of people want to keep their markup clean.