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Nailed it.

I love PHP and it's still my main language, but the reason so many projects never get completed is because of this. Really I should just accept that for an MVP, Laravel and a static front end with some old school jQuery where required is fine.

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Sorry but if you love PHP and use as your main language, why you don't complete any sideproject ? I don't understand your statement.

I do complete side projects, but I don't complete more than I complete. Often it's because trying to balance multiple projects when each is using multiple frameworks in different ways becomes a massive headache, things get paused and then canned because now there's newer buzz-word frameworks to use!

Side projects are natural places for programmers to get lost in this kind of bike-shedding/yak-shaving/etc., since they're not under the same kind of "this needs to ship on Tuesday or I lose my job" pressure that work projects are.

And in fairness, one of the better reasons to do a side project is to get up to speed on some fashionable technology so you can get a better job; that may well be of more value to you than the nominal deliverable, in which case it could make sense to prioritise it.

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