Sure. This is assuming you are starting a new project, for existing projects the cost-benefit analysis is different. When you're starting a new project in PHP,

Sure. This is assuming you are starting a new project, for existing projects the cost-benefit analysis is different. When you're starting a new project in PHP, there's almost no reason to start from anything else than Laravel or Symfony. These are powerful, well-written, performative frameworks that give you a lot of the plumbing (routing, caching, database, ...) of your app for free, and that allow you to focus on just implementing what you need to implement. Additionally, you will find that other people (third parties) have written code that integrates with these frameworks, and this allows you to re-use their code instead of writing your own. Finally, in terms of maintenance, it will be easier to hand over the application to new developers, because they might be familiar with either Laravel or Symfony.