[egeozcan]

Luckily I have a real life example from a customer project I was involved as a consultant: Integrating a custom identity provider with multi-factor authentication. This was from many years ago though. They also used to have some performance problems in some naively implemented middleware and needed to deep-dive into how things actually work before being able to optimize. And commands - I was doing the integration with our software and their command queue was always causing problems with stuck jobs until they read the implementation. The specific problem with Laravel as a product is (was?) that the docs are too beginner oriented and perhaps "you don't need to know what's under the hood" mindset is exactly what's causing this. I got to know many experienced PHP developers who got really frustrated because of the ELI5 style docs.

You can't always rely on the docs too, however excellent they may be - some game developers read code from game engines to optimize, some web developers read code from their web frameworks. But, some change their whole stack when they get frustrated, and I argue that it makes little to no business sense to do so. Just understand what you are working with and deeply.

[Chiron1991]

I can't speak for the other frameworks, but with Django this would have not been a problem at all. In Django, most "batteries included" features really just are 1st party plugins, i.e. you can choose to not use the builtin authentication stack and bring your own. All of this is officially supported and well documented, e.g. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/topics/auth/customizin...