&quot;I tend to prefer libraries over frameworks...they don&#x27;t box me into patterns I don&#x27;t want or need&quot;<p>You&#x27;re confident that you&#x27;re able to identify what you want and need, and how to get there.<p>You don&#x27;t need help or strong direction.<p>In contrast, I worry about making the naive choice, and I trust that others have thought about this a lot more than me. So I tend towards things that have built-in best practices&#x2F;assumptions&#x2F;guidelines, i.e. &quot;box me in&quot;.