Case in point, I've spent a year excising bloated frameworks from my stack at work and replacing the few corners we needed from those frameworks with, e.g. 50 lines of curl calls. The C compiles instantly and is tailored for our tiny use case, produced much quicker delivery on our one related feature we wanted, and removed chains of dependencies.
Being reliant on far-too-abstract libraries and frameworks to do simple jobs is also a curse. But nobody at work has the experience to know that curl was sitting right there on our image available for our use. And nobody has that experience because nobody took the time to build something from low level libraries. Now we know how and can make an intelligent decision without defaulting in either direction because we were afraid to try.