I've noticed that particularly in web development there is this trend of writing - and using - countless frameworks that add much more complexity with little gain, and where the response to existing complexity is to... add more of it. IMHO that doesn't seem like a very good way of doing things, since now you have to learn not only JS, but also all these extra indirections piled on top, to understand how your web application works. It's not doing any favours for the browser that has to run all this code either. On the whole, this just feels to me like an immensely wasteful way of doing things.