This is my take with it too. They seem to be good at creating “high fidelity” mock-ups, and creating a basic framework for something, but try to even get them to change a background color or something and they just lie to you.

They’re basically a good tool for stubbing stuff out for a web application…which, it’s insane that we had to jump through all of these hoops and spend unknown billions in order to get that. At this point, I would assume that we have a rapid application development equivalent for web apps…but maybe not.

All of the “frameworks” involved in front-end application delivery certainly don’t seem to provide any benefit of speeding up development cycles. Front-end development seems worse today than when I used to be a full-time full stack engineer (and I had fucking IE6 to contend with at the time).