You’re alternative title could be “No Country For Old Devs”, but I hear you. Maybe a bit verbose but you covered a lot of things that I’d thought of when it comes to these sorts of frameworks. I think what really attracts people to them is that it has an order to it, and a semantic structure for naming all the things you’ll want to create classes for. But as you point out, you end up having to combine multiple classes to get the layout you want so you end up with unreadable code. I think a lot of people just think they need to use a framework for this stuff, especially when they are less experienced, but really they just need to learn to use the tools properly.