Governance

quote : The world's changing fast, but I suspect CodeIgniter still has a place in it

Well the world changes fast in some places,  and pretty much doesn't change hardly at all in other places.

If you take the 3rd world for web, they mostly use WordPress   installed onto  a server somewhere rather than directly having their web on wordpress.com ( as you might be doing )

Now if you were to teach ICT in the 3rd world which I have been involved in , then php is not a bad language  if  as a tool for teaching ICT  it is used in the right way. 

Now  i also don't wish to offend but people playing with wordpress  are deluding themselves if they think they are learning coding  ; there are  sites of some stature , which have zero security in place .

 Now  to introduce  the concept of class and method  , inheritance and the like is fantastic . You can do that with CodeIgniter; its easy to write your own class and a piece of cake to download CodeIgniter, get started with it and integrate your own classes.

 Other frameworks such as Laravel last time I looked at it, i couldn't find anything on how to integrate my own code. You couldn't even just  use a terminal with composer to set things up. Last time I looked at laravel they mention virtual, homestead and a load of other stuff

Now expanding , clarifying whats going  on in CodeIgniter4  is welcomed by at least by me .  The critical thing for me is that there would be someone  someone  preferably,  a none coder , at a level above coders to have a  vision where CodeIgniter4 is going , and to  direct coders. 

I will edit later

CMS CI4 A CMS system, runs out of the box written on top of CI4

Arch Book  CodeIgniter4 on Apache(pages 92-114) 

CI4-CMS Github