More on CakePHP

I've started using CakePHP full time: professionally and as a hobby. It makes creating websites a piece of "Cake". Unlike other PHP frameworks this one doesn't seem hell bent on trying to make itself Java.
Yes Cake realizes that with out persistent memory a full ORM is probably not a great idea. Which leads me to a critique of Cakes ORM. The ORM functionality in Cake 1.1 is incomplete. It doesn't do inner joins at all. It's hasMany relationship doesn't join and then query, it just executes off the first table, finds the keys and relationships, and then executes multiple selects on the second table. Well, I'm rambling now so I'll stop. Expect more on Cake.