Much of the complexity in Symfony comes from its "dependency injection" component (a misnomer, really) and the inclusion of annotation magic in the standard fra

Much of the complexity in Symfony comes from its "dependency injection" component (a misnomer, really) and the inclusion of annotation magic in the standard framework distribution. These days, I'd rather use the basic components (e.g. Symfony's HttpFoundation library) with something like league/container (formerly orno/di) and a simple routing library like nikic/FastRoute.