I\'ve recently begun building version 2 of my year-old custom MVC framework. It\'s worked great for me on a number of projects, but I definitely see room for improvement. It
It's not perfect - There has been a tendency to use static members and concrete class dependencies in ZF - but some of these have been ironed out in later versions of the framework. I'd say that compared with other similar frameworks, ZF is doing well. In fact the loose coupling is probably the biggest selling point of the framework.