>I’m always amused when the frameworks being used advertise things like “We make coding fun!”

I understand where they're coming from having dealt with a few legacy frameworkless spaghetti code bases that have no documentation. Give me bad code to maintain in a known framework over bad code without a framework anyday. Adding features and debugging in those conditions are no fun at all.

The end user is paid to deal with whatever we provide them.

But more importantly, the fact that the page loads 2 seconds longer is a drop in the bucket compared to the insane processes our business people dream up.

End users don't care. When they see a slow website they think "Awesome, now I have a reason to buy that new iPhone Jessica has because this one is getting slow"