Frameworks promised faster development cycle, lest code and uniform codebase. But over the years, this proved to fail to deliver except in certain minority of cases.

I think modern programmers nowadays understand that it is much better to take the path of libraries than frameworks as it provides them with the same functionality of a framework(which is just a bundle of libraries), but with the freedom of implementing their code however they want, unlike wit ha framework, which forces certain structure and style as frameworks had to made certain decisions for the programmer in order to be a functional and comprehensive tool. This lack of freedom will usually bite most programmes LATER, when it is too late to go back and refactor code or change style and whatnot.

And that inherently also makes small frameworks even less usable than the larger ones.

YMMV, but not really.