[falldowngoboom]

Are you opposed to a lightweight framework? Or a templating tool like Smarty? Ideally, a good framework would make a cleaner, more coherent codebase. If you restrict frameworks, I have a feeling most devs will just roll their own.

[jacquesm]

I think that plenty of people are going to 'drop' this in to their existing site as a nice to have module in the back-office or intranet. That means they'll have to do customization, any kind of dependency is going to make that much harder.

So even a 'lightweight' framework will likely complicate things, for instance it is possible that another framework is already present.