- Criticism about Laravel's diversity of methods and helpers.
- Advice to be careful with syntax sugar.
- Discussion about the use of 'where belongs to' with a model instead of 'where field and value'.
- Concerns about the readability of new helpers for newcomers and developers outside of Laravel community.
- Advice against trying to impress colleagues with using the new helper or functionality.
- Discussion about the helper called 'tap' and its readability.
- Preference for more readable, standard code over shorter, 'sexier' code.
- Discussion about controller routing and the confusion it can cause for people unfamiliar with Laravel.
- Advice to write more rarely used code to make it easier for others to understand.
- Discussion about the potential harm of using new, 'sexy' helpers and packages.
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