My friend, it’s clear you love Synfony, and that’s totally fine. It’s just a real bad look for a software engineer to not understand when various tools are useful. It’s our job to understand our tools, and when the balance of value tells us to use them.

I wish you luck in your career! 😄

Laravel is built on top of Symfony, removing lots of boiler plate. We could build it ourselves, but we don’t want to.

Each tool exists because it has value for those who use it. This is like Mac vs Linux. They do the same thing, but I don’t have the time or patience to jack with Linux all day.

It is a poor craftsman who blames their tools, or doesn’t understand when to use which tools.

If performance was the requirement, PHP may not be the best choice. But it’s easy to develop for. Symfony is a set of tools built on top that we could surely build ourselves. But we don’t want to.

My previous wallet of 3ish years. A bit of patina but still as serviceable as the day I made it.