In my oldest project, which I have not worked on since 2019, I received a bunch of pull requests from other developers.
It helps when you write software other people want to use and provide good enough documentation.
It helps when you write software other people want to use and provide good enough documentation.
Your comment completely reaffirms my original comment way at the top in that these frameworks largely exists so that employers can avoid any kind of investment in their developers.
Then it is not complex enough to support the needs of large projects.
You admitted it yourself. You work with a small group of people in small projects, but you got huge opinions.
Building a bespoke framework, for nothing of value except because you want to, isn‘t investing in developers, it‘s creating a huge cost factor for no gain.