Escaping the Package Trap: Why I Built Laravel Fabric

🧬 Escaping the Package Trap: Why I Built Laravel Fabric As a Senior Systems Architect, I’ve spent years building complex multi-school systems, enterprise-grade SaaS platforms, and high-volume eCommerce engines. Even with excellent tools like Filament or MaryUI, building at this scale presents a recurring bottleneck: the "Package Trap." You need a feature, so you install a package. Then ten more. Suddenly, your application is a house of cards built on 30+ vendor dependencies, each with its own "