It’s looking more and more like I’ll be using Laravel in preference to Rails, Django, and Masonite. Maybe Laravel isn’t ‘better’ from every point of view, but it seems ‘better’ enough for me.
I’m finding that I really like the syntax of Ruby and the philosophy of Rails. Both are straightforward and ‘clean’. But I’ve been tinkering with Laravel, too, because it runs on more shared hosting services since it’s just good ol’ PHP.