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by dagw 532 days ago
While framework idioms are important, they're secondary to delivering working, maintainable software that solves real problems.

To a first approximation, you will never be the person maintaining the code you wrote. So if that person who takes over from you, who is well versed in the idioms of the framework in question, cannot easily understand what you have done and why, then it isn't maintainable software.