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I'm not seeing a valid axiom to base that point on, either. I can use a framework and release an MVP in a month, or I can spend an entire year writing the equivalent of a framework and then release an MVP a month later (my custom framework lacking the battle tested stability, security, and peer review from a formal framework's community). Multiple frameworks exist to cater different projects and different opinionated teams. Laravel isn't even a fully reinvented wheel, it uses a lot of symphony components, it is compatible with a lot of generic PHP libraries, it uses some standard tooling like composer and webpack. By not writing my own custom framework, I can pass off my project to another team or my client can hire any random PHP developer.