All true and good points. I last used PHP a decade or so ago, and heavily relied on CodeIgniter framework. They had a good, tight feature set, and a fantastic

All true and good points. I last used PHP a decade or so ago, and heavily relied on CodeIgniter framework. They had a good, tight feature set, and a fantastic community. The fact it's now mostly gone kind of speaks to your point, though it may just be that PHP's marketshare overall has dropped so much that there really isn't sufficient energy to keep more than a couple of frameworks alive.