CI4 release date coming

So you guys are suggesting creating tools that are codeigniter specific instead of using composer for packages that anyone can use?

Depends on your definition of a tool.

If it's a completely stand alone small component, like a library for 3rd party integration or maybe image manipulation or something similar, yeah, it'll be good to make it framework agnostic.

But if you extend CodeIgniter's core, or build more fleshed out product that will relay on CI framework core, it's obviously going to only work on CI.

And I'm sure there are already loads of framework agnostic libraries out there that would already work with CI too.