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A software's usefulness is not correlated to how well it was architected. What I like about Laravel is that its fairly complex code base that is mostly composed of tiny and expressive functions

[lugg]

I'm not sure I follow.

We're not talking usefulness here we are talking about clean code.

Architecture is not only correlated but causal in this situation.

It's over architecture is the problem. It's nano functions are a positive side effect but don't change the indirection problems you face.