I did a fairly broad and deep investigation into PHP frameworks a number of years ago and the best framework I found was Yii[0]. It had scaffolding generators and was very well designed for both database and caching performance while still being relative easy to use. It even generates command-line tasks so you can use the framework for one-off or recurring jobs. There's a pretty big ecosystem now with many plugin style libraries.
[0] https://www.yiiframework.com/
Edit: TL;DR - it's made the way I would have made a framework which is a rare find.