[wysewun]

I'm migrating to Magento 2 from a custom built solution in Laravel. It is very complex, but there are some improvements from Magento 1, and it's been good for the most part.

There are other alternatives we looked at, such as Spree (ruby) and other php based carts, but Magento 2 has so many extensions available from third party and the developers are actively listening to the community. The Chief Architect, Alan Kent is available to communicate with and has pushed changes that the community really wanted (i.e. moving to SASS from LESS).

It's been a steep learning curve, but there is also a lot of flexibility in modifying the code to suite your needs (without needing to edit the core).