> ... The biggest downside is that there's no standard web framework

I hate to say it, but this why I feel justified in earning 50% higher pay than the younger devs on my team who are more passionate, more ambitious, faster, and put in more hours, yet always want to rewrite the boring web code in whatever is the new cool language of the year.

I mean if you feel it's worth it to stay late and work weekends in order to reinvent the same old boring code to deal with marshaling HTTP to types, process forms render templates and Json, etc - precisely the things that were mature and battle tested in dozens of other frameworks years ago - I guess that's fine if at least you're learning why it's such a bad idea (unless your job is to wrote such a framework instead of actual business requirements).

But your managers and especially your customers could care less that you did so.