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Of course there is! It fragments the community, which means instead of pouring our efforts into making one really awesome framework (e.g. Ruby on Rails), every other developer is making their own.

Not that I think that's inherently bad, especially since web technology is constantly in flux, but you can't say that having tons of small frameworks has zero impact on anyone's life.

Yes there is. It becomes harder to separate the wheat from the chaff.

You're forgetting the people who are new and coming in. Having a hundred options to choose from leads to initial paralysis.