Future of Magento

Hi everyone, first time poster.

I was fortunate enough to have learnt Magento (and the full stack languages) as we moved over from a Dreamweaver website 10 years ago, taught by a PHP dev who no longer works for the company.

I myself am now freelance, if you want the check the site out it’s The Spicery.

It’s heavily customised with custom warehouse integration for picking/packing and internal server written in .NET that handles postage labels for royal mail.

There’s always a been budget/admin friendly issues. We use a lot of page builders now (Magezon, Amasty etc) which work, but there’s a always a line between good code and letting the content creators loose.

Really, is there an alternative that could be worth looking into? I am 1 year into learning Laravel and love the simplicity, could there be an avenue there?

Cheers