CakePHP

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2009–2019), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with CakePHP, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Hard to debug and see the actual query with placeholders2019-05-14
Hard tasks get harder to do, making the framework unusable long term2011-12-08
Hook return data shape varies unpredictably, so developers must test to figure it out2011-07-29
Confusing naming convention and it doesn't work as expected2010-04-29
Joins and associations are clunky, forcing raw queries shoehorned into ORM objects2009-11-01