I actually prefer the world with boilerplate connecting more important pieces of code together, over opinionated frameworks, because the boilerplate can evolve, charging the opinionated frameworks is much harder, and it's probably done by full rewrite. The thing is, the boilerplate needs to be kept to minimum, that's what I consider good API design. It allows you to do custom things, so you need some glue code, but not so much that you are writing a new framework each time you use it.