There's resources like laracasts which take you through from the basics to highly complex concepts without it feeling like you're being lectured.
One benefit of Laravel is that under the hood it shares a lot of Symfonys core components so should you decide to switch at some point it's not too much of a learning curve.
I've used it to build ~5 websites and it's been very solid. The docs are pretty good and it does most of what you need out of the box. Especially the 8+ versions of Laravel. If there's something you need that's not included in the framework itself, it's likely there's a well-maintained community package.
Just my 2c.