I used CodeIgniter for many, many years before moving to Laravel 5 years ago. I have absolutely nothing bad to say about the framework. It helped me learn MVC, OOP and more advanced PHP practices. It was also the most popular framework for small-team developers for a very long time and you guys should respect what this framework did for PHP in general. I've made hundreds of thousands of dollars using CI back in the day and appreciate what it did to help the PHP community move forward. Laravel will be dead just like CI is one day and I'm sure a lot of you will look back on Laravel as fondly as I do CI.
