Comment by gaigalas

My experience in the real world is that the majority of people choose the largest "macro" framework available and go with that. It's what happens most often.

The "micro framework" phase happens when that "macro" framework fails to deliver something. It happens way less often than a team picking a big estabilished tool.

However, the sizes never mattered. That is likely what causes the confusion in the first place ("it's large so it must have lots of things I want", "it's small so it must be easy to understand").

The real red herring is focusing on the size (or LOC, or any vague metric) instead of other more relevant architectural properties.