Symfony sucks!
The documentation, the community, the configuration, the routes, the migration, and installing a component for every fucking small thing suck! specially if you want to build a crud app.

@whimsical I don’t understand why some people consider Symfony superior to Laravel. Symfony lacks many features that Laravel includes by default.

Of course Laravel has it's own disadvantages like too much magic -e.g: Facades, bad practices -Active Record, etc. but it's really fast and rich for developing apps specially for CRUD

for a While now I just chose to use Laravel for my php stuff and live happy under its popularity

but I still have that irk to go framework hoping, one of these days I found LeafPHP, which I found interesting, anyone has experiece with it?

I think the part about only using the components you need can prevent unnecessary bloat.

That said, there are 2 things I dislike about symfony.

1. Yaml file configuration files for every little thing.

2. The way they wrap around composer, making it weird if you want to use something outside their ecosystem.

And while I don't like how many classes you need to interact with a single entity (I think you needed a model, an entity manager and a repository? Could be wrong) and I find eloquent easier to use than doctrine, I have seen waaaaay too many fucked up projects that are thoroughly fucked because eloquent makes it too easy to fuck up queries with all the magic it has.