I am also from a CodeIgniter background. I also see this limitation inside laravel that every model is a data model. What if we don't want to make any db transaction inside a model.
If you dont extend eloquent in your model you can change how you want to use your model eg. With mongo or even persisance via session/file or no persistance.
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