For those of you who have no choice but to use WordPress (marketing team/customer requirements), I strongly recommend you look at the roots.io stack. It allows you to bring modern PHP development practices and sanity to WP while keeping the CMS the same for end users.

Bedrock introduces the ability to manage WP core and plugins using PHPs composer package manager meaning that plugins are tracked in git.

Sage is their theme which allows you to develop templates using blade and vite.

They also have radicle/acorn bring pretty much a Laravel setup with WP bolted on.

I will mention them anytime I see WP, the team are doing great work.