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It was sort of necessary for PHP renaissance, to clean up the act, but it's also "not PHP" as-in why bother using PHP if you're going to do it that way, I feel like. The whole joy of PHP is the magic of it just works coupled with a super short path from prototype to prod, but before the component-model that's now the norm and the language clean up it meant a lot of crap foundations. Wordpress is still here to attest to that.

That's why Symfony rose above, and why Laravel is taking over. Laravel is essentially "let's do a code igniter 2 but on top of symfony clean design this time".