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by AngeloAnolin 1383 days ago
I think the reality that there's little (to none at all) job posting which would only require application development in vanilla CSS/JS/HTML is the main reason why frameworks dominate the land.

While I see the value of using vanilla stuff, the complexity of software requirements, ever evolving browser APIs and features and increasing ease of using libraries (i.e. date-fns, lodash, etc.) has definitely increased the appeal of frameworks.