> The benefit of frameworks is that they enable low-ability developers to create stuff without understanding the nuts-and-bolts of what they're doing. Eliminate the frameworks, and you eliminate probably 90% of the developers out there.

This is sort of meaningless though, isn't it? The frameworks exist, and will continue to do so. The developers who rely on them occupy a niche – a big one, probably.

These developers are out there growing the pie, the appetite for software. Either it's good enough, or, sans anticompetitive forces, someone with a niftier solution comes along and outcompetes them. As we should all be aware though, there's more to building software than just knowing how to code.