I'd say also very opiniated. The writer obviously hasn't tried Phalcon yet :D
At the company I'm working we use Symfony, but its slow with a lot of overhead and so abstract that half of the time your trying to figure out what is where. Personally i can't really recommend using Symfony. Havent tried Laraval, I think its a bit hyped, did read some of the docs but then i came across Phalcon and i got instantly interested, whereas before I'd almost had given up on frameworks after two years of working with Symfony.
In the end it comes down to personal flavour i guess. We got an über autist here @work that swears Symfony is the best thing around, comming from Zend