Zend Framework forms, decorators and validation: should I go back to plain HTML?

I too find the default decorators to be a massive pain. I understand why they are the way they are, but I think the 'inconvenience factor' has been grossly underestimated.

I have been using as many Zend components as possible over the past 10 months, on a large project, and Zend_Form has been the biggest pain in the ***. The forms are slow to render, and hard to make pretty. Don't even get me started on Sub-Forms.

I saw an interesting article called "scaling zend_form" but it didn't seem to help much with render speed :(.

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