Breaking changes are a pain and you have to calculate the risk when using it. Laravel was my first framework (I jumped in at version 4.1) and maybe if was still

Breaking changes are a pain and you have to calculate the risk when using it. Laravel was my first framework (I jumped in at version 4.1) and maybe if was still moving fast at the time. For a while I used Laravel and Symfony side by side, but after a while I jumped ship and decided to focus more on Symfony, because I felt it suited my needs better. Plus the update cycle was more predictable (Laravel changed it to a time-based versioning at version 5, then to semver at version 6, v6.0 was released in September 2019 and 3 months later was already v6.8, it's a bit too unstable for me to use in long-term projects). Doesn't mean I will never use tools with breaking changes, but I will use them cautiosly, fully knowing that I will need to allocate time to updating the system in general. PHP as a language has been VERY backward-compatible in my opinion, though. And Python 3 was released in 2008.