But a good framework is valuable, and it is satisfying when you figure out how to make one. Yes, a framework becomes another standard. Although we like to invent them, people should try to reuse existing frameworks rather than invent one of their own and end up on an island of technology. But we are seeing more and more standards in the COM and OMG worlds, and we need to have something similar in the Smalltalk world. It may be hard to develop frameworks incrementally, but I think it is the only way to do it.
Frameworks are just hard to design.