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It's also the most obvious telltale that most of these frameworks are completely unnecessary for many front-end scenarios. I find a good portion of the front-end work I do does not benefit even from the more lightweight ones like Backbone in the least.

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I used to feel like that too, but Backbone is really lightweight and unopinionated. Check out this step-by-step guide on how to convert a jQuery app to Backbone: https://github.com/kjbekkelund/writings/blob/master/publishe...

I've used Backbone extensively before. It was actually the other way around where I didn't need 90% of what backbone did for what I was doing and just switched back to jQuery.

For situations where I actually do want some kind of client-to-server data-binding, I generally prefer it to provide two-way view<->model binding so I've been leaning towards Angular (as heavy as it is) and Knockout.

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