I agree, and I see every day that PHP apps are not written with both these pitfalls and advantages in mind. Instead, most "foreign" PHP code I look at today is

I agree, and I see every day that PHP apps are not written with both these pitfalls and advantages in mind. Instead, most "foreign" PHP code I look at today is either made to look like it was designed for a Java app server or is so ineptly cobbled together that no apparent thoughts were invested into the structure at all. I blame both of these on the messaging and marketing coming out of Zend and the surrounding ecosystem, namely that PHP is supposed to be a language where big applications are constructed with convoluted EE-like class trees, and that PHP is supposed to be a beginner's language. Both of these constitute an outright failure to recognize where its strengths and weaknesses lie, in my opinion, by the same people who are maintaining the language.