Yesterday I had a tense argument with my tech lead and the ceo of our company about our ERP system that is written in pure php. I have suggested that the current codebase is really hard to understand because it does not follow any design pattern. On the other hand, we are hiring new devs soon and it's my responsibility to guide them throughout the code. However, he completely refused and said what if Laravel has been sold to a Chinese company in the future? We don't want to make our fate in their hands. Are those fears legit? I mean do you think pure php really provides more freedom than Laravel?