Symfony

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2011–2017), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Symfony, 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 10 complaints

Framework is harder to use than it should be, with heavy setup code per request2017-07-30
Framework is poorly documented and harder to use than it should be2017-07-30
Dependency injection requires heavy XML/YAML configuration, making it hard to work with2016-06-16
Form library not designed for user-defined custom fields, making them a nightmare to build2016-05-24
Hard to trace where dependencies come from when debugging2014-11-16
Config spread across many YAML and PHP files is confusing; took two days to configure ORM2013-08-29
Too many ways to configure, nested files, verbose code; hard to learn the 'symfony way'2013-08-29
Deeply nested namespaces are hard to work with and verbose to import2013-01-08
Docs are incomplete, forcing users to browse separate libraries to find what exists2011-08-10
Forms were unusable and everything was too verbose2011-06-24