I understand and it makes alot of sense, at the same time, I have to deal some internal projects with specific needs for companies that need to carry 'the entire software and the entire database' with them on a handheld device such a small tablet, which sometimes leads me to synchronize the server database on the tablets that use the app. So in these cases and some many other scenarios, the size isn't really an issue, but being able to code quickly and efficiently is. Anyway, I believe Laravel using SQLite, stripped down to its bare minimum, is not that heavy. Whether the PHP binaries can significantly increase the bundle size... at that point, it would be about evaluating the costs and benefits (technologically speaking) of the stack, I guess.

My main concern is to be able to interact with the device itself, using CapacitorJS plugins for Geolocation, Camera, etc.