Need of Built in Authentication system

Hi,

Well, IMHO, I don't think a built-in authentication will be great, even laravel doesn't come with any authentication built-in. In fact, you cannot get the debug bar that CI4 provides out-of-the-box in laravel except you install a package.

With that being said, I believe that most of these frameworks try to keep things simple, so that you can always "extend" or "add" as your project requires.

I recommend you check out this CI4 authentication plugin. It is very robust and secure too. I've used it in a couple of projects and it worked just fine for all use cases.

Regards.