Why the hate for CI still

CI4 is suffering a lack of contributors, which leads to a lack of "timeframe of release".
The road map is pretty clear, IMHO: https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter4/milestone/2
That's what we want to finish for the next milestone.

As for BCIT, I am finding it an uphill battle to persuade the academia to jump on the open source bandwagon as contributors, or to embrace student participation for academic credit. I have a student team helping at the moment, as a pilot project, so that's a start. I am not holding my breath waiting for other contributors from the school, while I help chip away at the todo list

That's worrying

Codeigniter is simply one of the tools you need to learn to be a successful developer. Always add more tools to your coding arsenal!