[eluser]nmweb[/eluser]
Buda, can you give us pseudocode or an outline of how you handled the Frontcontroller? I'd be interested in seeing your approach. On the ten points you raise, I must say I agree with you on basically all of them.
I must admit that I enjoy Kohana a lot nowadays and I'm confident it will last. CI might be backed by a company but I don't think this has reflected on the codebase the last year or so. The last two releases didn't solve the major issues I had with CI and when I look at the recent SVN history it's mostly typofixes in the documentation. Compare that to the Unit Testing module added to Kohana only days ago. I'm confident though that with the release of ExpressionEngine2.0, development for CI will pick up.
CI for me has certainly opened up my eyes for proper web development but honestly I have moved on to more advanced code and CI held me back. However, I could not have done it without CI and I wish it all the best in the future (the jQuery library Derek showed off somewhere looks really neat)
