I too have hit limits of what Laravel does, but for me this is actually a good thing. I think Laravel handles most of the drudge work and then leaves things ope

I too have hit limits of what Laravel does, but for me this is actually a good thing. I think Laravel handles most of the drudge work and then leaves things open for me to do business/app-specific things my own way. Of course this is subjective, as everyone draws the line of "how much do I want my libraries/framework to do for me vs. how much do I want to do myself" in a different place.