How do we get CodeIgniter back to the PHP framework of choice?

[eluser]cartalot[/eluser]
github trending for the month is a good look, and CI is #4 for all of PHP right now
https://github.com/trending?l=php&since=monthly

turns out CI is still fast compared to many other php frameworks, this is from May 2014
http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#s...&test=json

stackoverflow is active every day with codeigniter questions
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/codeigniter

people still blog about codeigniter and post code and tutorials, here's one example
http://developer-paradize.blogspot.se/

phil sturgeon who regularly flamed CI is now tweeting praises -- twitter
Phil Sturgeon @philsturgeon · Jun 7

"I’m genuinely impressed by the gallant efforts of the CodeIgniter community to fix stuff: https://github.com/EllisLab/CodeIgniter/commits/develop … Props to @narfbg et al."

Phil also tweeted recently announcing CI 3 has built in support for Composer

meanwhile there is an entire industry that is built around extracting money from developers who use frameworks. people who write books, create conferences, video tutorials, etc. stable frameworks that change slowly - do not make these people money. so when those people are nervous that you won't buy their latest offering then they flame the framework you might be using like CI.

it was interesting that many of the very same people who created the last codeigniter conference - just a few short weeks later declared that they were done with codeigniter. they quickly created other pay conferences, pay books, pay videos, etc for their new framework of choice.