&gt;Surely the recent emphasis on frameworks over fundamentals has been a major contributor to the Web full of bland, practically identical sites that we see today.<p>It used to be mostly plaintext and basic colors with no responsiveness, under construction gifs, basic images, and flashing text. Before that, just text. We&#x27;re still learning as an industry. Web technology has not (and may never) settled like the hardware in your toolbox.<p>Those frameworks are geared for productivity, not possibility. Productivity is where the money is.