> Also, by their very nature they almost require you to write a program of a minimum size even when a simpler program would do to solve your problem.
I'm not sure I agree, sure they require you to pull in a large dependency, and that might not be good for some use cases (particularly microservices) where you're sensitive to the final size of the image but for e.g. with Django you get spawned a project with settings.py which configures your database, middleware, etc. and urls.py which configures your routes, and then you're really free to structure your models and endpoints however you like.
I'm not sure I agree, sure they require you to pull in a large dependency, and that might not be good for some use cases (particularly microservices) where you're sensitive to the final size of the image but for e.g. with Django you get spawned a project with settings.py which configures your database, middleware, etc. and urls.py which configures your routes, and then you're really free to structure your models and endpoints however you like.