Kinda, but there's a subsequent phase of maturity where you realise that you are knee-deep in technical debt as a result of spurning the framework and infrastructure and find yourself reinventing relational behaviours such as joins and foreign keys, but badly and expensively and in application memory, because your attributes are a freeform uncontrolled grab-bag of poorly typed whatever, and you'll wish you'd just had the discipline to trust that the framework folks really did know their stuff after all.