To be a bit pendantic, I think your argument applies more to using libraries than frameworks. You can do everything you describe by using a set of libraries or off the shelf solutions (for DBs, ML, etc), without them being part of an overarching framework, and without reinventing the (whole) wheel.
It’s clear that using libraries over rolling your own for everything is sound advice (in 99% of the cases). But I think the picture is more nuanced when it comes to frameworks.
The value that frameworks bring on top of this is that someone has already done the work of gluing two or more disjointed libraries together (e.g., auth and DB). But the drawback is that you also loose the ability to look outside the framework (or you have to do extra work to escape it’s constrained world), and compose things exactly the way you want. Frameworks tend to be invasive, and force you down a certain path, be it good or bad. They are helpful to get to a working solution quickly, but they may constrain you unhelpfully in the long run.
To be a bit pendantic, I think your argument applies more to using libraries than frameworks. You can do everything you describe by using a set of libraries or off the shelf solutions (for DBs, ML, etc), without them being part of an overarching framework, and without reinventing the (whole) wheel.
It’s clear that using libraries over rolling your own for everything is sound advice (in 99% of the cases). But I think the picture is more nuanced when it comes to frameworks.
The value that frameworks bring on top of this is that someone has already done the work of gluing two or more disjointed libraries together (e.g., auth and DB). But the drawback is that you also loose the ability to look outside the framework (or you have to do extra work to escape it’s constrained world), and compose things exactly the way you want. Frameworks tend to be invasive, and force you down a certain path, be it good or bad. They are helpful to get to a working solution quickly, but they may constrain you unhelpfully in the long run.