[neilellis]

The problem is that 99.99% of developers aren't (writing Twitter etc) but they still apply techniques used by unicorns to handle their own very exceptional needs.

We should always be wary of applying skyscraper building techniques when building a house or a shed.

I honestly bet that 99.99% of people who read Hacker News could write their applications with a drop of jQuery and some basic ES6 code.

I have nothing bad to say about these frameworks, more caution that we don't apply techniques needed at scale to small scale products.