In my experience (in our rather large MVC-style Laravel code base) DTOs are almost always an unnecessary abstraction. I'm much more content just shuffling actua

In my experience (in our rather large MVC-style Laravel code base) DTOs are almost always an unnecessary abstraction. I'm much more content just shuffling actual Models around, with small methods that map these to whatever format the client then requires. I've refactored away many a DTO added by junior developers and the code is always much simplified.