I did one project in Laravel. I was impressed. That said, it takes WP to the opposite extreme. That is, it is has little regard for backwards comparability. Finding answers / examples via The Google is messy and frustrating, at least for someone who was new to Laravel.

I like that it's forward-thinking, but it moves so fast that it has negative impact on user (i.e., dev) experience.

Laravel performance is abysmal, though. You're gonna spend 10x on server costs if you use a fully featured framework in PHP.