[trommlp]

I really enjoy using a microframework and multiple small libraries to build a project instead of a huge, opinionated framework for the reasons you mentioned above. Glueing different interfaces together within my own "business logic" can be arduous sometimes, but the flexibility usually pays of when some new unforeseen requirement comes around the corner.

That being said I have settled for this simple setup when it comes to web applications. However its quite interesting how I seem to forget the insight I should have gained from all this framework-back-and-forth when I enter a new problem space and inevitably choose the complex, batteries-included framework.

This is why I think there is a use-case for every kind of framework out there. The big ones take the load from your shoulders while you are still learning about the problem. And if you so choose and the circumstances allow it, you can replace it later with some framework that is simpler at its core, but possibly easier to maintain, because you are able to reason about every aspect that made it difficult at the beginning.