That has not been my experience and I have a project that started in 2017 with PHP 7.1 & Symfony 3.3 and is now at PHP 8.4 & Symfony 7.3 with plenty of dependencies.
Not everything will always update flawlessly but with Composer and a popular framework with planned depreciations and releases the ecosystem tends to sync fairly well.
Not everything will always update flawlessly but with Composer and a popular framework with planned depreciations and releases the ecosystem tends to sync fairly well.