thanks! we think of mastra and other frameworks as "batteries included" for patterns like memory and reasoning. this is great for many but not all projects. i think mastra is doing a great job balancing some of this by simply wrapping vercel's ai sdk (we took some inspiration here in our tool picker and it is recommendation for llm calls).

we're leaning away from being a framework in favor of being a library specifically because we're seeing teams looking to implement their own business logic for most core agentic capabilities where things like concurrency, fairness, or resource contention become problematic (think many agents reading 1000s of documents in parallel).

unlike most frameworks we've been working on the orchestrator, hatchet, first for over a year and are basing these patterns on what we've seen our most successful companies already doing.

put shortly - pickaxe brings orchestration and best practices, but you're free to implement to your requirements.

[1] https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet