Auth

People have a hard time accepting NO as an answer! I don't think it is something that should be decided by the number of votes. The people responsible for the framework are the ones who should decide. They can ask for our opinion but in the end it is for them to decide what should be added in the framework or not. We must be very careful with that kind of stuff if we don't want a bloated and sluggish framework in the future!

"CodeIgniter is a community-developed open source project"
This means that "people responsible for the framework" should hear what community wants..

CI is already off date because of the long searching of new owner and etc...
Most of the PHP project's today are focusing of usage of Namespaces of composer and etc.. 
We have to thing what will be the NEXT CI, not just to keep our good CI as it is.. 
This means that it should be using all modern elements of PHP and at the same time to provide all basic features which can be required for app development.
Auth system or at least basic user handling is Important things which at the moment is the biggest minus of CI at all..

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