This is a really good shout. I used to do some very lean code but have recently been chucking some sort of boilerplate or bootstrap type thing at a project in the beginning. Some of it I know is useful like HTML5 enabling scripts but I could live without a lot of what’s provided. It’s laziness on my part.

The one thing where it can be useful is getting past the ‘blank page’ when you don’t always know where to start but that’s not a problem on a well defined project.