I'm not sure why you've been downvoted. Anyone who has ever seen a Laravel stack trace will surely have been appalled at the number of stack frames that sit below their own code, and all that machinery is loaded on every single request. It's truly shocking. PHP isn't Java and shouldn't be treated as such.
There is a very strong movement for using a large framework within the PHP community, like Laravel, upside is that is has helped PHP community to revitalize the PHP stack. The downside is that large frameworks is now considered best practice.
I wonder if OOP as a technique will eventually always end up as Rube Goldberg machine.
I haven't paid attention to frontend web development in like 15 years so I don't have any newer examples ;(
I'd hope new stuff is also CGI-based and restart on every request, otherwise you're asking for security issues (like leaking another user's info Heartbleed-style).
