Stephen should consider eating his own dog food before sitting down and typing something like this out.

"the only job that a web developer really has is thinking about design" What???

Boostrap: The Premiere FED Prototyping Framework for Ghosts

"My issue is that these frameworks take most of the thought out of designing a webpage..."

"my issue is that these frameworks X,Z take most of the thought out of developping an application..."

Sounds stupid right ? well it is. Using boostrap doesnt transform anybody into an ergonomist or a web designer. that's simple as that. But i prefer an non designer using bootstrap than one coming up with an horrible layout of his own. And again :

+ Boostrap is TESTED on a WIDE range of browsers,phones so one doesnt have to do it , exactly like jQuery. Doesnt mean one doesnt need to do tests , does mean that one can assume his layout will work on most browsers and phone. That alone makes boostrap worth it.