[eluser]jbowman[/eluser]
CI doesn't fit the exact bill of being an object oriented mvc framework. It's true. In fact, I figured this out a while ago and decided to go try Zend, Cake, Symfony, and looked at some non PHP frameworks like Django and Grails...
I'm back to using CI and mixing in some of the Zend Framework modules. Why? Because in the end I can get the job done quicker using CI, and it's structured enough that with some basic discipline I can maintain the code very well. The rest were too complicated for their own good, or required learning languages like java and python which I'm just not familiar enough with. CI has it's flaws. It probably is too loose. But, for a lot of us, it really has turned out to be the most productive way. In the end, productivity is the reason you choose a framework.
