I'll give you a counter example. I've worked extensively with the symfony framework (10+ years at this point), and clearly remember a company I've applied to a

I'll give you a counter example. I've worked extensively with the symfony framework (10+ years at this point), and clearly remember a company I've applied to a couple of years back guesstimating that the take home assignment is going to take 2-3 hours tops to complete. And the requirements might be reasonable for an already setup project, but when you have to do it from zero; unless you're scaffolding new symfony projects every time a new release is out, you're going to waste at least an hour scaffolding/googling/installing/wiring up all the dependencies/auth/orm you might need for you flow. It's not as bad as within the NodeJS ecosystem, but all libraries/frameworks that have a yearly major release, like to break things along the way so you're never going to hit the ground running in a couple of minutes.