Laravel is the framework that lets you ship a working CRUD app over a long morning and a tangled mess of fat controllers, mass-assignment vulnerabilities, and N+1 queries by the end of the quarter. The first regression is almost always a query log explosion: a Blade view iterates over $users and renders $user->company->name inside the loop, every row triggers a separate select * from companies where id = ? , the homepage now fires four hundred queries on every request, and the database starts queuing connections under load. The second is mass assignment that became mass exploitation: a developer copy-pasted protected $guarded = [] from a Stack Overflow answer in 2018, the User model now accepts whatever the request payload contains, and a curl request with is_admin=1 in the body just escalated a regular user to root.…