[fiatjaf]

I don't think people use frameworks and abstractions because they have a smoothier learning curve, or because they are simpler, but because of DRY. After repeating the same pattern twice, the programmer turns it into a module and abstracts it. After having a lot of modules, the programmer packages them all in a framework. This is good for the author of those modules and the framework, because he understand them, but not always for the outsider who just looks at the complete framework and don't know what's inside.