Becaus while Symfony seemed to be "the right way to do it", Laravel focused on DX and the ecosystem and was still performant enough to start a business and scal

Becaus while Symfony seemed to be "the right way to do it", Laravel focused on DX and the ecosystem and was still performant enough to start a business and scale it. There is just more attraction for things that make it easy for people to work with / build stuff, for that very reason RoR is still a big thing in 2025 and if you look at Java, people are still using Spring Boot while there are interesting competitors who may have an edge in performance and some other aspects (e.g. Quarkus).