How did CodeIgniter run out of steam?

CodIgniter has always kept its promise to be a fast mean and lean developers framework. What happened was that it was
not up to date with the current php versions for security etc; Ellis labs figured it was to must to fix because it needed a complete
re-write to get it up to date.

Well during that period a lot of the top community users moved on to other frameworks, some of us stay with CodeIgniter knowing
that it would be fixed sooner or later. Well Ellis Labs finally decide to let CodeIgniter go and awarded it to The British Columbia Institute of Technology -
CodeIgniter Foundation.

What did you Try? What did you Get? What did you Expect?

Joined CodeIgniter Community 2009.  ( Skype: insitfx )