I think the biggest question to ask is how big the project is.
Wikipedia, Facebook, Etsy and other huge platform are written in PHP, but I doubt they use a framework like Laravel and not some in-house built platform.
Very tiny projects probably need no framework.
That leaves medium-sized projects, but again, it's hard to define what "size" means. I think a project is bigger if it implements various functionalities instead of having hundreds of different files that do a similar thing.
I can see Laravel being used more by out-sourcing companies. Custom frameworks or no framework being used more by companies building their own product.
Wikipedia, Facebook, Etsy and other huge platform are written in PHP, but I doubt they use a framework like Laravel and not some in-house built platform.
Very tiny projects probably need no framework.
That leaves medium-sized projects, but again, it's hard to define what "size" means. I think a project is bigger if it implements various functionalities instead of having hundreds of different files that do a similar thing.
I can see Laravel being used more by out-sourcing companies. Custom frameworks or no framework being used more by companies building their own product.