[px1999]

The theory is that a DSL should be better than whatever generalised programming language you're using. SQL is a good example - ORMs tend to fuck up querying databases (ie pulling back unnecessary data) almost as much as they fix. SQL, a language designed for querying relational data, is (unsurprisingly) pretty good at doing what you need efficiently.

In practice, a lot of frameworks are made by people (who are just people, and don't 100% know what they're doing at the outset). I'd say that if you're spending too much time in configuration, you're not using the right frameworks.

No, in a few years those frameworks will be forgotten. From the terms that you've used, it sounds as though you're coming from the Java world, which has an inexplicable love of config files - if that's the case, it might be a bit longer than a few years, but they'll eventually figure out that config files aren't a good representation for options.

Though the layers of magic and abstraction will continue to increase and grow, at least until simple LOB usecases can be achieved in a couple of lines at most.