[KrugerDunnings]

I dislike frameworks for the same reason most of their proponents like frameworks, you can not expect to out-compete all the smart people working together on a common goal. Frameworks are bad at cultivating off-colour ideas, they tend to have a well curated API but are often stuck with a singular architecture. Sometimes the solution is to be found in some lateral dimension. One such example is PostREST, it does away with 80% of API boilerplate by inferring the API from the database schema using functional programming magic. You sort of have to become a Postgresql wizard to get everything out of it, but I feel that this knowledge is somehow more valuable than yet another backend framework.

[mattgreenrocks]

Mediocrity enshrined as a process that gets elevated to best practice.

And then you get yelled at if you try to improve on it, because it is a best practice. :)

[revscat]

You just described my last employer to a T, and all because of ego. They kept solving problems that the framework they used already had solutions for. You were actively discouraged from coming up with any different solutions, because the VP of development was stupid and didn’t want anybody changing the patterns he used when they started the company. This included things like “using base classes or modules”, any third party libraries, code linters, database views, and many others.

It was a huge waste of YC money, but the money kept pouring in.