Ask HN: Why web frameworks are becoming so complex?

A little about me: I am web-developer with almost 10 years of experience. I've spent lots of time in my life learning about design patterns, frameworks, and going through hundreds of programming blogs. I work mostly with quite big business apps (crm's, intranets) but also big frontend websites. Since I started working as developer I can see that every year majority of leading frameworks (at least in PHP, Javascript, Ruby...) for web applications are becoming more and more complex. Instead of writing code in programing language we move into xml/yaml direction and hundreds of weird config files. Each frameworks use different syntax for config, often different templating languages, few layers of abstraction with a lot of magic behind the scene, Dependency Injections, ORM'S, CRUD generators with supposed to make our life easier actually are painful to use... Even small website often requires hundreds of megabytes of dependencies. Sometimes one application can have 2 dif