I disagree on what this says about frameworks. I think frameworks are great. They are specially great when you come to really understand one and how it works and how it can be customised.

The major problems I've seen with frameworks is that people just use the default look or try to add customisations on top of the default CSS, overriding styles. I mean, that is just setting yourself up for a world of pain.

But most CSS frameworks are really, really flexible in the build stage. You can tweak a few variables that can dramatically alter the appearance of a stylesheet and give you an awesome base to build on. Pretty much for free.

If you do all the CSS from scratch you're anyway going to write at the least a reset, some base typographic styles, responsive stuff, and some kind of grid system. Why not use something that is widely used, peer-reviewed, and very customisable?