[syn0byte]

Why don't you drive an 18 wheeler to work every day? They are used by millions of professional people every day who's job it is to drive! Why would you be different from all those people that you think you need to use a little car instead?

The answer is obvious in both cases; You don't need it and it would be wasteful. If I don't have a huge database with constant read/write calls, If I don't have to try to manage multiple end users submitting content, if I don't need super async real-time snappy UIs to compete with the latest android app fad or session tracking of tens of thousands of users, why would I need laravel?

If nobody rolled their own specifically for what they needed, we would still be writing ASM/APL/Raw hex.

[dpau]

i'm sorry but i'm really not convinced by this argument. there are many frameworks available in various languages/platforms, some created specifically to be light and fast (in the PHP example above, lumen is a possible choice). my other argument would be- why are you spending so much time on plumbing when you could be concentrating on the parts of your application that make it special?

[NeoBasilisk]

Most people are making CRUD apps that aren't all that special.

[least]

This analogy sort of falls apart in the details. Rolling your own is more akin to building your own vehicle. You might have all the right parts to have a functioning vehicle but you probably don't have the experience of a team of engineers and designers of a commercial vehicle.

In most cases you can buy a modestly sized vehicle from a manufacturer that still has a team of people ensuring the performance, utility, and safety of the vehicle.