I would say not laravel because it has new releases every other day, forces you to use tailwind and webpack and all that, etc.

Their old simple API framework is deprecated.

I started looking at Yii and Phalcon a bit but not crazy about either.

Yet.

I want something like Struts but for PHP.

So, I might have to... create another framework. :-D

Thought about RR but every time I jump in again, I nope out again. Maybe just need to really learn it.

FastAPI seems interesting but can't find simple videos on how to do login/auth sessions in under an hour -- red flag.