Is your team over-complicating authentication by forcing OAuth2 where simple stateful cookies would suffice? Taylor Otwell breaks down why Laravel Sanctum is the 'secret sauce' for SPA security and how it differs from the heavyweight Passport. He also addresses community criticism regarding the 'maturity' of Inertia and Livewire, clarifying that these tools are designed to keep solo developers productive rather than forcing them into the 'professional' trap of separate repositories.