Reminds me of Joel Spolsky's Hammer Factory (original is sadly no longer available):
https://www.danstroot.com/posts/2018-10-03-hammer-factories
The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if this is just a plot made by some people so that most people will not get actual coding experience and just learn to turn knobs on the current framework, thus making the difference between them and the frameworks builders even bigger.
I'll put in a third plug for Lit here since it doesn't get much love on HN. Lit is as bare metal as web components and data binding properties could possibly be. It's near zero boilerplate. You just include Lit and start writing your real code. What a relief!