CodeIgniter 4.2

I built my site around the idea of easily finding the controller method just by looking at the url. Now it is all thrown out the window and I have to route literally "Hundreds" of ajax and form urls and also rename probably close to a hundred methods with "get,post,put, etc.." parameters... I feel betrayed.... is there a way to make the old way work in version 4.2.1? because I am already dying trying to maintain a fully featured social networking site and then these drastic changes happen.... do you guys hate me.. I love CI but.... T_T

I was in a similar situation as yourself... a fairly large app with a couple hundred routes. 

To ease the pain of creating all the routes I have been using kenjis/ci4-attribute-routes (https://github.com/kenjis/ci4-attribute-routes)

It allows you to generate a routes file based on attributes you place above each controller method.

I go through every controller/method and add the routes attribute and run a simple spark command (php spark route:update)... voila instant routes!

If you create a few snippets in your ide to generate route attributes code, you can plow through several hundred in short order.

In the future I'll be using kenjis/ci4-attribute-routes in all new projects. Simply put, it's a brilliant tool that just makes sense (for myself at least) to use all the time.

Big thank you to kenjis