Auth

Mean while in a CodeIgniter far far away... I don't see why having some kind of auth tool built in to CI would cause anyone to walk away from CI. They have a choice not to use an auth system if it doesn't fit their needs, but to walk away from CI because of it? Unlikely!

Unlikely? Here's a promise: I am abandoning CodeIgniter if it gets a built-in "Auth tool". For the last time: not a f*****g chance this is happening while I'm around.

Create and use packages, stop asking for everything to be built-in. It's not possible.

Well why not abandon CI because it has a calendar class, shopping cart class and many other infrequently required classes? Or helpers that do what just a few lines of php will do any way? Maybe with your attitude you should give up using a framework all together and create and use packages instead!