I'm more or less on the same page with you—and it's worth noting that the things we agree with him on are where the extra burden is placed on the client side, w

I'm more or less on the same page with you—and it's worth noting that the things we agree with him on are where the extra burden is placed on the client side, while the places we disagree are where the extra burden is placed on the server side. If you can make sure your server is fast enough that the client never notices a difference, it shouldn't matter whether you're using Apache's built-in routing or Symfony's PHP routing.