The thread started out interesting, but it quickly got to a point where it seemed like there's no one to talk to...
I personally don't find CI4 bad at all. Been building a new marketplace with it, and so far it's been working out great.
There are a couple of things I disliked (the translation, or magic methods in entities for ex.), but I exchanged some of those with my own solution, which worked out great. This is actually one of the beauties of CI4, you can very easily move around.
When I choose a framework, I look at the following things:
- Speed (Don't want to end up with a bloated website, just to end up feeling it was a bad choice)
- Flexibility (I learned to code in C, therefore I'm well aware of the low level programming, and I hate it whenever a framework is limiting me of achieving very specific edge cases)
- Difficulty (The point of a framework is to speed up development, if it takes more time to get around the framework, then I'm better of with my own solutions)
So far CI4 seems to get these mostly right, therefore it's my first choice.
