> that I worked with PHP for two+ years maintaining both legacy codebases and writing new code with Laravel. might seem like trolling, but from what I've seen,

> that I worked with PHP for two+ years maintaining both legacy codebases and writing new code with Laravel. might seem like trolling, but from what I've seen, Laravel encourages bad developer practices such as static code etc, while Symfony encourages good OOP practices. so Laravel in itself is attracting specific audience with different priorities than Symfony, so it may explain your main complaint about PHP code which cannot be treated as same. I mean Laravel is written in PHP but it does not mean that same code practices are used in other frameworks/projects.