I don&#x27;t really think we disagree on that much here.  I think the only place we veer off is that I feel as though he&#x27;s just trying to talk to his audience, vs being passive-aggressive.<p>The intended reader, as I interpreted it, would be the someone that reads Javascript Fatigue articles and goes &quot;hell yeah&quot;. For this person the abundance of frameworks probably does feel tiresome.  The person for whom this kind of advice would be patronizing doesn&#x27;t seem to be who this article was meant for (although now I see what you mean by the title being click-bait)