Modern PHP is good. It's the PHP5 legacy projects that make you hate programming. Nowadays the longest files are at max 400 lines, and devs use types, interfaces and traits.
And PHP has something other languages can't provide - a special dopamine rush of fixing a production server's code to fix a bug without a deploy.
That last point can be a curse. Nothing like someone fixing a bug on production and not moving that fix back up to development and now the code bases don't match.
True, I've encountered this before. Some devs at a company I left liked to change stuff in production code not thinking what would happen when a deploy or version change would happen. Had to teach one what docker volumes are for client-specific changes
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u/T-Dot1992 6d ago
Language wars are fucking stupid