I do not understand the mentality of "opinionated" frameworks or tools being a good thing, and the trend toward said frameworks disturbs me greatly.

What people call "opinionated" is nothing more than something being "architected". Someone has made a bunch of decisions for you that down the road you have no idea whether or not it will actually be good for you.

Using these types of frameworks short-circuits the process of being able to understand the nuances of building software. It's the apartment building or high rise of software development.

It turns design of your system from a personal journey toward the solution of your problem into little more than assembling linking logs.

I can understand the argument for an opinionated toolbox, but not for wanting base tooling itself to be opinionated.