Can you give an actual example of the &#x27;so many problems&#x27; you describe?<p>Your previous comments address the paradox-of-choice idea, but the uncontroversial path in Node is to &#x27;just use Express&#x27; right? How it that a worse situation than in other languages where there are also trendy frameworks competing against the default option. You name PHP as a better situation but from what I gather PHP is even worse at casting off legacy frameworks. Laravel is the new trendy, whereas it was CodeIgniter&#x2F;Symphony before that and EE&#x2F;Wordpress before that. And in Ruby, there&#x27;s similar competition over an alternative to Rails [0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.engineyard.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;life-beyond-rails-brief-look-alternate-web-frameworks-ruby" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.engineyard.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;life-beyond-rails-brief-loo...</a>