The best things about Kohana is its simplicity. If you've done any framework/mvc building/modding/learning before you're going to be able to understand exactly

The best things about Kohana is its simplicity. If you've done any framework/mvc building/modding/learning before you're going to be able to understand exactly how Kohana works with just a little bit of effort. In practice, this means two things to me: 1. Whenever I'm in doubt, I can easily go to the code. I don't live or die based on documentation. Everything from the front controller to the templating library is accessible to any skilled developer. 2. It doesn't have to be a ginormous "all things to all people" framework like Zend or Cake or Symfony. (Those are great frameworks, I'm not knocking them). It can stay smaller because if there's any functionality I need that isn't there I can write it in without much work. And this is very idiomatic in Kohana. The framework encourages you to extend and overload.