[thrashh]

Even every significant website built 15 years ago not in JavaScript involved a framework. In Java, you got Spring. In Python, you got Django. In Ruby, you got RoR. In PHP, you got Symfony. etc.

Blaming frameworks seems misguided.

[pjmlp]

Yes, they have been relatively stable for the last 20 years, and focus on delivering what the browser does best, HTML and CSS.