I agree. I do think there is a place and time for frameworks, especially for sites with huge amounts of content but when you have sites with several types of content, it's almost easier to have that direct manual control of traditional themes. You can always create a few functions that can act as a reusable framework snippet if you have to. With custom post types coming in WP3 (http://tinyurl.com/yekc6rb) I think we'll really start to see an evolution in themes and theme frameworks alike.