What do you actually do with Laravel?

Every time I read a post about Laravel I feel like I'm using it wrong. Everyone seems to be using Docker containers, API routes, API filters (like spaties query builder) and/or Collections, creating SPA's, creating their own service providers, using websockets, running things like Sail or node directly on live servers etc, but pretty much none of those things are part of my projects.

I work for a company that have both shared and dedicated servers for their clients, and we mostly create standard website or intranet sites for comparitively low traffic audiences. So the projects usually follow a classic style (db-> front end or external api -> front end) with no need for these extras. The most I've done is a TALL stack plus Filament. And these projects are pretty solid - they're fast, efficient (more efficient recently thanks to better solutions such as Livewire and ES module-bsased javascript). But I feel like I'm out of date because I generally don't understand a lot of these other things, and I don't know when I'd ever need to use them over what I currently work with.

So my question is, what types of projects are you all working on? How advanced are these projects? Do you eveer do "classic" projects anymore?

Am I in the minority, building classic projects?

How can I improve my projects if what I'm doing already works well? I feel like I'm getting left behind a bit.

Edit: Thanks for the replies. Interesting to see all the different points of view. I'm glad I'm not the only one. submitted by /u/No-Echo-8927
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