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I disagree. The initial release of Yeoman with it's "opinionated workflow" (as they had coined it) cornered you into some dead ends, Yeoman 1.0 does not and is highly extensible.

Yeoman no longer attempts to be a wrapper for things like Bower and Grunt but rather concedes their usefulness while keeping them separate. Use it how you see fit.

What is great about Yeoman is it really gets you thinking about your end-to-end process for front end application and asset development and provides you some great avenues to pursue in both tooling and workflow. From asset creation, unit/end-to-end testing and build process it's rather complete in concept.

Is Yeoman for everyone? That's entirely up to the developer. Anyone worth his/her weight will certainly be pursuing these concepts in their own workflow whether with Yeoman or without.

"Once people reach a certain level of competence it's going to be quicker and/or easier to set things up themselves." Could you be a bit more specific as to what they will outgrow? Evolve maybe, but I personally will only shelf my usage of Bower and Grunt tooling if something makes more sense in my workflow.