The document discusses common myths about the Symfony framework and attempts to dispel them. It addresses claims that Symfony is hard to learn, extremely coupled, not really programming but just configuration, restrictive, and badly performing. For each myth, counterarguments are provided explaining why Symfony is in fact easy to learn through documentation and community support, has become decoupled over time, allows for significant programming through controllers and custom code, is flexible through configuration, and can be optimized for performance.