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You should probably be looking at the core Laravel framework repository, not the "new project"-boilerplate.

https://github.com/laravel/framework/graphs/contributors

To me it seems like the ecosystem is growing rapidly. There are at least three large conferences each year, a handful of established podcasts and an excellent video tutorials site. There are also a number of paid services like Vapor for running Laravel on Lambda, Forge for easier server management and Laravel Shift for automatic version upgrades.