[XorNot]

"it handles the boilerplate!" Has always been the weirdest argument about most things. Like, sure...so does a library. That's why we have libraries.

(Or at the extreme end, this is what something like C++ templates were for).

[giantrobot]

Libraries and frameworks remove some boilerplate but there's still tons of it. It's rare a library exposes a single doTheThingINeed() function that runs a business. Everyone needs boring but domain specific code.