This semester I took a graduate level computer graphics course; the professor was the guy who wrote
the seminal textbook on computer graphics.
We were implementing seam carving for one of our projects, and he remarked that we could choose to use C++ or Matlab. Now, he also remarked that Matlab would do it fairly quickly, but not as fast as C++ could. He continued, however, and noted that it would be silly to write it in C++ because it would only take a couple hours to write in Matlab while it would take a day or two in C++. After all, what's more important -- expensive programmer time, or cheap CPU time?
I think the same thing can be said about using frameworks. There is some inherent overhead in using them, but it can save you or your company a lot of time by providing functionality for you.