Why do most CodeIgniter teams migrate to Laravel?

Five reasons drive most migrations we have run. First, hiring: senior PHP engineers increasingly default to Laravel and command higher rates if asked to work on CodeIgniter long term. Second, ecosystem: the packages CodeIgniter teams need to build from scratch (queues, broadcasting, ORM features, subscription billing, admin panels) ship as first party Laravel packages. Third, security: Laravel ships with stronger defaults and a faster security patch cadence. Fourth, hosting and scale: Laravel Forge, Vapor, Octane, and Horizon make production operations easier. Fifth, modernization: business demands (multi tenancy, real time UIs, complex integrations) are easier in Laravel than in CodeIgniter.