LTS - CI 3 -- how long will it be supported/maintained ?

An interesting answer by the PHP creator himself (Rasmus Lerdorf): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuB6UjEsY_Y

CI is not bloated which is one of the reasons that I love using it.

I saw this video last time. I’m not sure why he said suck but most  probably due to performance stand of point. If we take for example like HTML/CSS out of the box, frontend frameworks are really useful and can save a lot of time namely Bootstrap, UIKit, SpectreCSS and many more to do various functions in DRY mode. This is also true in CI for PHP.

In CI3, the MVC structure is so simple and easy to understand for a beginner like me but when I try Laravel (for example), I will have to deal with a lot of other additional stuff which is totally unecessary such as middleware, this and that it almost make me puke. From what I can tell, CI4 is definitely going the Laravel way, the dotenv, the composer, the new routing, and so on, nothing is original anymore. Maybe php ignisan make:controller to scaffolding a controller template (pls dont be lazy and use the copy paste)...

Thank you.