Just found this blog post "Beef with Bibframe" and 5.5 years on, this is still disappointingly true:
> "The philosophy at the beginning of BIBFRAME was quite literally “Let’s figure out how to describe digital representations of books” and not “let’s figure out how to describe digital resources that libraries own”. #bibframe
https://remerjohnson.github.io/2016/05/25/beef-with-bibframe.html