In reply to Alan Orth.

I will take a look at The SEO Framework, thank you Terence. At first glance, the number of PHP files in The SEO Framework is literally ten times less than Yoast SEO (autodescription is The SEO Framework):

$ find wordpress-seo -iname "*.php" | wc -l
246
$ find autodescription -iname "*.php" | wc -l
24