[mogosselin]

"The projects I know that were developed 'without a framework' are more often than not poorly structured, poorly documented, and difficult for new developers to learn their way around"

You are right! I didn't mean that I would like beginners to code 'Production Code' without any frameworks and do all their stuff themselves.

Especially if it's a big application, this would mostly result in 'unmaintainable spaghetti code'.

What I meant by beginners: "People learning to code", not "Beginners doing a production code without any help from more experienced programmers" ;)