If you can limit yourself to exactly one, maybe two external deps, which are really just to make your dev life eaiser, you may have something of a point.

You have to remember that a large chunk of "web apps" means "electron apps" which are absolute bloated pieces of junk next to their desktop cousins.

You also have to remember a 'framework' typically doesn't stand in isolation - tens, hundreds, thousands of dependencies typically lurk.

We all agree tracking junk makes it even worse, but the whole thing is already overcomplicated before you get to that point.