Obviously, performance generally isn't the main criteria when choosing a framework. I would argue that your "software that scales" isn't important either in mos

Obviously, performance generally isn't the main criteria when choosing a framework. I would argue that your "software that scales" isn't important either in most cases. I don't care much about performance either, especially compared to documentation, but that does not mean these benchmarks are useless. For instance, comparing similar frameworks can show big differences which illustrate different software architectures. Among the Nginx/phpfpm/Mysql fullstack-with-ORM frameworks, Laravel has roughly 8% of the raw stack capacity, while the other mature frameworks can do 2× or 3× more. I suspect this reflects Laravel's abuse of magic (calls to non-existent methods are redirected at runtime to other objects created on-the-fly, and so on). This may not be the real cause, but such a poor performance makes me suspicious about the complexity or the quality.