[modernlearner]

My background is Rails, Django and AngularJS. I've worked with everything that came before Angular/React (MooTools, Ember, Backbone) and you're right, I like the idea of an opinionated framework that provides enough tools to get up and running and to maintain for the next few years (at least).

This is why I liked Elm as well because it bakes in a particular structure and adds static typing.

The other advantage is if you're hiring freelancing. From personal experience, anything that was custom and less opinionated cost more billable hours. Dealing with a framework like Laravel, Django, Rails cut costs in a noticeable way and the remaining work was actual hard problems to solve.