Not necessarily, I'd rather have my phone die at 40% or something, at least I can investigate then, and replace my battery. In the other hand, throttling my system and hiding it from me...
Would be curious to know more about your experience, I mostly use CakePHP, and have minimal experience with Symfony 2 and Laravel, but I always go back to CakePHP.
I got lucky to get clients who either had preferred stack in mind when they reached out to me or had a existing product developed with various frameworks I mentioned where they needed technical input.