This is the big reason I use Symfony for most of my projects. I do lots of refactoring and modernizing of legacy or non-scalable codebases as a freelancer; wit

This is the big reason I use Symfony for most of my projects. I do lots of refactoring and modernizing of legacy or non-scalable codebases as a freelancer; with Symfony you can replace it module by module and slowly implement the Symfony framework structure. Through some configs, it can do dependency injection, event listener stuff, etc, but the framework is mostly glue around components. With Laravel, you need to go "all-in", and you had to do things the Laravel way. If I strayed from that path, it would make things really difficult. I still work on projects with either of the frameworks, but if I had a choice, it would almost always be Symfony.