Laravel is probably the top reason why I moved away from PHP to Go. I find it frustrating to have to learn custom DSL and custom syntax to do basic stuff. Which then of course if you learn is going to be useful until the next major version of the framework, at which point you will have to re-learn everything over again. I like how I can just know the Go standard library go into dozens of different projects and still being able to contribute because there are no custom frameworks and DSLs.