Comment by PaulHoule

Mini-frameworks would be dangerous at a place like Google where smart people think they are smart. I think they're heaven sent for smart people who think they're stupid.

Distributed (multithreaded, concurrent, ...) systems are a counterexample that are highly vulnerable to snake oil. In normal software it makes sense to build up from a small set of intellectually coherent primitives. In those cases you inevitably end up with poor performance and usually reliability if you try that. Java started out with a snake oil approach to threading (synchronized!) and Doug Lea talked some sense into them and now we have java.util.concurrent which has a rich set of primitives which are pragmatic and meet the real requirements, not a vision of purity.

On the other hand, If it was a mini-framework to pound out numerous not-so-simple HTML form applications it could greatly enrich your life and your team's.