At the same time, is it too much to ask for a sidewalk? That’s the thing that bothers me the most. Many suburbs seem built to be actively hostile to walkers, rather than just inconveniently sprawling.
Laravel the framework does use a bunch of Symfony libraries under the hood, but is still a very different framework. Symfony’s library offerings end up everywhere, with good reason. They’re used in but not strongly tied to the Symfony framework.