If you work on all those projects alone, and you're happy doing this, you probably wouldn't. You aren't the target market for a framework like this.
Laravel (and any good framework, really) is for people who want a consistent dev experience _with good documentation_.
I don't know about this. But then I am of an age where I consider myself to be a team of programmers separated by time.
There are the younger, less easily tired versions of myself who thought this was a great idea for a career and lived on takeaway curries, there's me, and there are the four or five older versions of myself who will hate me for trying to be clever and not trying to be consistent.
Laravel helps me take on projects that allow me to hand off pieces of work among my team ;-)
It makes sense that if Laravel is strongly-opinionated to result in a consistent dev experience, but is a consistently bloated dev experience better than an inconsistent lean one?