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to me the comparison reminds me of what my typography teacher was going through with computer fonts.
She had an impeccable eye for spacing, widths and her eye for type was perfection. She was retired but she saw computer fonts as horrific in alot of the visual aspects and all the issues that a typography professionals solved in the perfection of the craft, those things just weren't important enough to the speed cost of page layout in a digital environment.
Its similar with what platforms like bootstrap are, and front end frameworks are doing to web design.
I witnessed 2 programmers create a program with a simple front-end using bootstrap without a designer involved. its was acceptable to them because it was clean and functional. They were so excited because they thought the interface looked good with cute bootstrap buttons. and css highlights.
To me it was functional but it had no soul or feel of a brand. just function with soulless unexpressive, usable front end. It wasn't optimized visually for design and function what you would get if someone put their heart into it. It was a saving of time/money in production.