If this were a brand new framework, then maybe it would be a waste of my time, unless I had more compelling reasons. However, I started building my framework a few years ago and have just been making incremental updates here and there. Friends and coworkers have started to use it over time, and people like it. I've been told to publicize it over the last 3-6 months, but haven't gotten around to it.

My framework is minimalist and gets the job done. I'm a big fan of minimalism and I don't like that some modern frameworks are bloated and have something like hundreds of thousands of lines of code, as opposed to just a few thousand, and that includes components outside the core, like helpers.

Paragon has more work in it than Paraglide. Paragon can support multiple different backends with the same code, just different drivers. I know this exists in other PHP ORM frameworks now, but not a few years ago (not saying mine was the first, it just wasn't as widespread). Also, Paragon integrates cleanly with Memcache so the developer doesn't have to deal with cache and uncache logic.

Hope this clears things up!