I am aware of that as we use Laravel heavily at my company. It depends on how you define "win". Laravel won as in getting the adoption by developers due to its

I am aware of that as we use Laravel heavily at my company. It depends on how you define "win". Laravel won as in getting the adoption by developers due to its ecosystem and low barrier to entry. Symfony is more component based (powerful) but you need to put it all together which is a bit more work. I personally love Symfony even though it was a lot easier to start and go to market with Laravel.