Seeking simpler alternative to Laravel: CodeIgniter worth it?

Personally,  I developed a CRUD portal in Laravel. After I deployed it for production use, we noticed it was very slow. I believe the issue is Laravel bloat from features we do not nee.d. For instance, we use LDAPS to AD for authentication so all the built-in code is useless.

Looking for a faster alternative led me to CI4. The migration took a lot of work but, for me, it is worth it due to a better end user experience. I DO miss the interactivity of Livewire though