This is true from an academic perspective, but not from a practical perspective. Typical crud apps don't have complex problem domains. They're just electronic filers with a search field. You do need some dsl's, for formulating views, tying those views to models, and tying those models to persistent storage. That's why most popular frameworks implement pseudo-dsl's for MVC and ORM. MVC and ORM can be solved in a generic way at the framework or even language level, and it could be argued that you shouldn't try to solve them in a project-specific way to ease maintenance. There is little value for many (or even most) projects in having a more powerfully abstractable language.