Symfony is directly inspired by Spring, and Laravel is an based on Symfony, so yes, that's the direction they are going. I kinda hate that trend, but it satisf

Symfony is directly inspired by Spring, and Laravel is an based on Symfony, so yes, that's the direction they are going. I kinda hate that trend, but it satisfies a cross section of devs who want "serious" enterprise looking code base but don't want to move from PHP. It's still noticeably different from Java, even with the heavy typing and all the inspiration.