This is so true. Even a horrible God class with 6500 lines of code is still many times better than an overdesigned framework with 100 classes of 65 lines each.
Totally agree, and as for ownership imho it all depends what level of complexity we are a taking about, if it's some web bs (no offense) it's one thing, if we talking about some parallel gpu FEM physics solver trust me there will be ownership and I think it's a good thing...