I Reviewed the 6 Best PHP Web Frameworks on G2 for 2026

A Laravel project that made sense at 10K users starts groaning at 500K. A Symfony setup that seemed over -engineered in month two becomes the only reason the team isn’t firefighting in month twelve. The early wins feel like confirmation, and the friction shows up later, when the team is already committed to the architecture, the ORM patterns, and the deployment assumptions baked into the first call.