This is probably CopyTrack. They have hidden 1px tracker jnside email. These are extortion tactics.
I dealt with them before. Just ignore them and stop opening email. They asked 800 euro for 2 small images. Since a OP is in UK the tought they can do triple price.
They don't see if you open your email or even if you download and open the attachments, at least in any sane email client. If your email client sends reading information back then you should replace it instead of not clicking on emails.
To get to know Laravel, I forced myself to build a project with it for a few weeks and I did not like it.
I found myself getting sucked in into a complex project structure and dealing with all kinds of strangeness like "artisan commands", "the autoload cache" etc.
With Django, I can build a web application in a single file that has "import django" on top and take it from there:
It’s difficult for me to trust a framework backed by venture capital (https://blog.laravel.com/accel-invests-57m-into-laravel). There are too many incentives to prioritize making money, which makes it easy to overlook developer experience. I rather use Symfony instead.
Tried Penpot, it was laggy and non usable.