Personally, I feel Laravel is amongst the top reasons why PHP is so vibrant. The amount of innovation that sprung from Laravel and it’s close ecosystem is amazing, LiveWire, Inertia, Alpine.js, Tailwind just to name a few.

I am yet to see a single framework-agnostic project using Laravel, that's the main problem for me.

It's like Ruby on Rails, you're either Ruby developer or "Rails developer". Same dichotomy for PHP/"Laravel developer" for me.

Having seen the average quality of open-source PHP projects that don't use Laravel, I think it might be a necessary evil.