[girvo]

Symfony, Laravel, they all are done the same way. But in practice, people create libraries specific to these frameworks, and that's where the issue lies. Less code reuse, more reinventing the wheel, more security issues as there are fewer canonical implementations and more scattered libs that may be ported to your framework of choice, but probably won't be...

We can fix this, though. The best part is, the skills learnt and code written while doing so are completely transferable and directly usable by the big frameworks too! So, it's a win-win :)

For what it's worth though, yeah I totally agree with you. It's not an either-or situation.