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Same with me here. I switched from using CakePHP to Django and haven't touched any PHP since. I would highly recommend Django.

With that being said, I think while development without a framework "might" feel more lightweight, you will pay for it later when you're maintaining your app. As they always say, you build it once but you have to maintain it forever. I think investing in a framework will most likely pay off in the future even if there is an overhead usually associated with framework.