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> Because with sufficiently complicated UI you will simply at some point have to start writing abstractions and libraries to help you handle all that mess, and then you'll basically end up building a good part of those "thousands of dependencies" yourself - reinventing the wheel.

And oh lord have I seen the result of these home brew “not a framework but actually is a framework” frameworks. They are all a rats nest nightmare for anybody but the original developer to work on.

The first thing that happens when the original developer moves on is the whole thing gets rewritten using the framework du joir.



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