Yes 
I am a staunch critic of the TechEmpower benchmarks (as a way to compare frameworks. They are likely useful as a development tool for a particular framework to find some performance bottlenecks). I have given reasons why in other posts.
They should not be used to compare frameworks. They even state so themselves. Plus the way they conduct the benchmark only makes them useful if you want to know how fast a specific framework can theoretically be with the wind in the back on a slight downhill slope. I’ve tried some of the faster frameworks in a more realistic scenario and they actually behave quite poorly and the benchmarks led me down the wrong path to even explore them at all.
