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Of course if you never needed the *stuff* in Spring Boot you are better off with a lightweight framework. The question is what do you do when you need the *stuff*. And Spring Boot has answer for pretty much any server-side need. I really like how autoconfiguration works for example.

True, and they very cleverly sell stuff as something that you get only with Spring, when it is actually sometimes a thin wrapper over something existing. Take `@Scheduled` for example which has just one real implementation based on Quartz.

What I like about the jooby approach is that things are not hidden below a layer of abstraction but accessible directly, while still easily configured into the application: <https://jooby.org/modules/>