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Laravel hasn't changed much. I mean, it did, PHP also changed a lot in the last years but the whole idea behind the framework is the same. Full of features, easy to set up, many tools built around Laravel to deploy your app, to build your own SaaS, etc but it's highly opinionated, you have to do it their way.

Symfony on the other hand takes more work but it's more flexible. One of internal apps is made with Symfony and after working on it for a couple years, if I had to set up the whole thing again I wouldn't know how.