The problem with frameworks at the time this piece was written (to be clear, I think they've gotten somewhat better since) is that the abstractions they provided were so horrendously leaky that you ended up writing more code, not less, because you need to do things that the framework was never meant to do, or was supposed to do but was bad at.

This has been my experience anyway. Even recently, I've had this kind of problem (not to name any names, but socket.io), but only because what I'm working on is somewhat more specialized than in the past.