I've been creating software for 40 years and I can tell you the statement "every sufficiently complex framework-free application contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a framework." is 100% accurate. Back in the day we'd go and create our own frameworks that we could use on multiple projects. They were never as robust as the frameworks that exist today since we didn't have nearly the number of people using the framework and discovering issues. Not to mention the incredible amount of time we spent creating and maintaining these frameworks. Coming from that experience early on in my career to where we are today with people complaining about "too many frameworks" sounds like first world whining to me! :) I'll take too many frameworks over having to create everything from scratch any day.