Ilse

Worth saying the same is true of the popular choice in the other direction: everyone has it on their CV and rather fewer people are good at it. Screening cost goes up as the pool grows.

This matches what I see from the other side, with one adjustment. The pool is not small in absolute terms, it is small in the specific slice you were hiring for, which was short contract and immediately productive.

For a permanent role the picture is quite different, because a decent developer picks it up in a couple of weeks and you get that back over years. The framework choice punishes short engagements much harder than permanent ones, and that distinction gets lost every time this argument happens.