This has been our experience as well. Laravel is miles ahead of Drupal and can be used to essentially build anything regardless of complexity. The only current

This has been our experience as well. Laravel is miles ahead of Drupal and can be used to essentially build anything regardless of complexity. The only current use case I've seen is in legacy situations primarily because some IT dept for a local govt or university "knows Drupal" and so that's where their comfort level is.