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I hear this a lot but I don't really see it. Do you have examples of sites which are written using a framework but shouldn't be?

At least half of the websites you visit would probably benefit in performance/size/usability/etc if they eschewed JavaScript.

I really don't know if that's true. The only example I can think of is ad-ridden media/news sites but those are that way by design.

Any content site.