[cturner]

When we engage in complex work, it is important to keep our options open so we can direct our best effort to the hardest problems.

It is rarely clear what the hard problems will be when new to a domain. Only as scale kicks in.

We are constantly pitched frameworks that sell themselves as a good approach to a domain, but then obstruct engagement with the hardest problems when it matters. The developer becomes captive of the system that claimed it would steer them right.

This is particularly true of fields where the hard problems are integration problems which, by their nature, cannot be outsourced to frameworks.