Stepping away from Laravel has shown me just how good it really is

These past few days I've decided to try and build a backend API in GO, just to learn something new, as it is quite a fascinating language and I find it rather enjoyable.

However from the moment I started building I realized just how much setup and boilerplate code is involved in building something from the ground up. From building your own http server, to managing database migrations and queries, structuring the project, rolling my own auth, making a websocket server, taking care of routing and god knows what else I realized it would take me a week just to get to where Laravel is at when I initialize a new project. We are so spoiled to have such an amazing tool at our disposal and just the thought of having to do ALL that work from the ground up that is already done in Laravel makes my head spin.

Just wanted to give my 2 cents on the subject.