I may be wrong on this, but I feel like one of the reasons there has been so many frameworks for PHP is that for a long time, there were was no dependency manag

I may be wrong on this, but I feel like one of the reasons there has been so many frameworks for PHP is that for a long time, there were was no dependency manager. Once Composer came along, and the PSR standards were created, then there was less need for frameworks. You could just bolt together whatever you needed from available libraries. ETA: For example, Laravel was first released before Composer was available.