"I really don’t see how these would work in anything other than very basic scenarios, even less how they would achieve the objectives."
Well, what are the objectives? If they are complex, so should the code be complex. That's the nature of our job. By adding an advanced framework you up the complexity by default. Instead of adding more code, you add more build dependencies. This is especially wasteful on websites.
In my opinion, people today are afraid of writing code. Everyone wants some framework to write code for them. That is not how we push our industry forward.
Well, what are the objectives? If they are complex, so should the code be complex. That's the nature of our job. By adding an advanced framework you up the complexity by default. Instead of adding more code, you add more build dependencies. This is especially wasteful on websites.
In my opinion, people today are afraid of writing code. Everyone wants some framework to write code for them. That is not how we push our industry forward.