Laravel as the main framework. Is not it too early?

Question

Laravel

I recently wrote one project on Laravel, in principle, I liked it. It really looks very elegant compared to other frameworks. Confuses his "youth" and the pace of development - in each new version they break something and do it in a new way, there is no backward compatibility in principle. I tried to use the IDE instead of the usual text editor - the facade support was disappointing (yes, of course, there is a Helper generator, but this is a crutch). In general, a lot of small fly in the ointment spoiling a barrel of honey.
How justified is it to study it in depth in order to use it as the main framework for small / medium / large projects? Maybe you should pay attention to some other framework, more mature (Yii, Zend?)? I would like it to contain enough components to focus on writing business logic, and not inventing crutches.

Answer 1

Well, the developers make various paid buns for him. The popularity is growing. I think it can be used as the main laravel has a future. And the frame is frankly not as complicated as Symfony, for example, or Zend. So definitely YES, laravel is quite suitable as the main framework for small/medium projects.
Regarding the IDE - PHPStorm already supports Blade. I think they will deal with the facades in the near future)

Answer 2

The whole point of Laravel is that it is built from packages from other frameworks.
Graceful Frankenstein. You can already go. :)

Answer 3

I'm not a super guru myself, but smart people suggested yii+netbeans. in principle, it is not badly integrated, sometimes it can freeze on weak computers. Now I actively use all this - no problems, only convenience. I recommend to everyone.