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Apparently the creater modeled it after Ruby on Rails, so I guess it's easier to use if you are used to that platform.

> What are the reasons to love Laravel?

Like you seem to have learned already, the reason to love Laravel is that it's not Symfony.

I found Validation a pain to use in Laravel as well which is why I don't use that feature.

Everything else: MVC, Migrations, Blade, Auth, Email Handling, Artisan commands are why I keep using Laravel.