&gt; All that to say, there is value in &quot;becoming an expert&quot; in a framework.<p>You can spend time learning Bootstrap&#x27;s eccentricities, or you can learn something useful like OOCSS. One will make you really productive at making websites that are instantly recognizable as Bootstrap-based, the other will make you productive implementing any kind of design.<p>Time spent fighting Bootstrap is wasted time from this perspective. Time spent fighting your own designs is time spent learning valuable lessons about front-end coding. You may gain a marginal speed improvement with Bootstrap, especially (and perhaps only, I find Bootstrap slows me down) if you&#x27;re new at front-end, but you&#x27;re paying a steep price for it down the line, if you ever plan on building a site that doesn&#x27;t work with the framework.