Some abstractions are worth it, some are madness. The only way to know for sure is to actually try it, and gain years of experience in a particular paradigm. I

Some abstractions are worth it, some are madness. The only way to know for sure is to actually try it, and gain years of experience in a particular paradigm. I built my first raw PHP and vanilla JS web application SaaS about 15 years ago. Some things have changed for the better since then, and some for the worse. Since then I've seen hundreds of frameworks, ideas, concepts come and go. Some of them, like Symfony/Laravel are a godsend which made my development much faster and easier. Other ideas, like React/Angular are unnecessary piles of complexity which add little value to the customer. I maintained a large Angular 2 app in production for several years, and after that built a startup on React, then I decided frontend JS frameworks and SPAs simply weren't worth the effort. Went back to HTML-only and a little vanilla JS, and the result was absolutely refreshing -- far less complexity, and the users can't tell the difference (it's actually faster and MORE reactive than most react-crap apps built these days). But I wouldn't go back to raw PHP, the abstraction layer that Laravel provides is well worth the performance tradeoff.