Why is Code Igniter not recommended?

People go on about CI not being modern PHP in design, personally, I think it is all hogwash. Do I want my code all up-to-date modern PHP OOP? Nope. FYI ignitedcms-pro is CI3 baked.

If you are so inclined the guys working on CI4 are doing a really good job. But for me CI3 is good enough. Though as of late, I've been deploying more of my stuff inside nodejs.

Specifically, Adonisjs.

https://adonisjs.com/

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