Yii2 is AWESOME and here is why

Disclaimer: I haven't used Yii2, but did work a few years ago with Yii1. All I remember about it was the lack of decent documentation and libraries, grammatical errors on the home page, and frustrating config setups.

It seems that they fixed most of these problems. But Symfony/Zend/Laravel have had these problems fixed for longer and have better communities. If you're gonna use a PHP framework, you're better off with a more mature one.

I enjoyed Yii 1.1.x when I was using it. It definitely gives PHP hope for the future. The biggest drawback was the small community and low quality extensions.

The core team is fantastic. I thought it was cool how the ten of them are distributed globally: USA, Russia, Croatia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Spain, Australia, Argentina. Only two share the same country (US).