Exactly, being able to pick your own frontend is what makes Laravel so useful to me. I hope they will give API functionality the same love and attention some day.
Swagger integration or something similar that generates documentation and live testing based on OpenAPI. Some support for endpoint versioning. Better ways to serialize models that have properties with computed values, on a specific request. ($_appends and $_hidden properties are getting a mess in complex projects). Plus, I'm sure people can up with more things I never knew I needed!
