I saw the following post on reddit.

I have been developing in Laravel and I loved it.
My work colleagues that have been developing for over 10 years (I have 2 years experience) say that Laravel is maybe fast to develop and easy to understand but its only because it is poorly designed. He is strongly Symfony orientated and as per his instructions for past couple of months I have been learning Symfony and I have just finished a deployment of my first website. I miss Laravel ways so much.
His arguments are as follows: -uses active record, which apparently is not testable, and extends Eloquent class, meaning you can't inherit and make higher abstraction level classes -uses global variables that will slow down application
He says "use Laravel and enjoy it", but when you will need to rewrite your code in one years time don't come to seek my help.
What are your thoughts on this?
Many thanks.

Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/3bmclk/why_experienced_developers_consider_laravel_as_a/ Is that true? What's your opinion about this? @JeffreyWay Any thoughts?