As someone who has worked in a lot of languages and a lot of frameworks, I never understood the hype around Laravel. It's very opinionated as to how you struct

As someone who has worked in a lot of languages and a lot of frameworks, I never understood the hype around Laravel. It's very opinionated as to how you structure your application but it gives you very little for forcing all that structure. I thought it would be and should be more batteries included. And the active-record style ORM is also not my cup of tea.