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I honestly prefer community supported battle proven production ready "magic" than what most product developer under a deadline cobble together. In my experience the problem you describe happened like... 2 times in my 20 years career. And I literally spend my entire days fighting my own colleagues very explicit smartnesses

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Sure, but it does exist frameworks that uses minimal amount of magic.

It is the magic part that is the problem, regardless if it is the framework or your own code that it is doing it.

There are really different topics here.

One is that the framework can do all the magic under the wood, or not, and in (almost) no case leak any clue about that.

Or, the framework can provide a lot of facilitation through conventions and there no real benefit to use this framework if you don’t leverage on these facilities. Having conventions doesn’t mean you have to be acculturated to all of them upfront though, as with proper modern IDE the learning curve can be very smooth and funny.

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