You are missing the forest for the trees. The statement I made is that more consistent and "opinionated" languages encourage better code. They don't enforce it

You are missing the forest for the trees. The statement I made is that more consistent and "opinionated" languages encourage better code. They don't enforce it, just encourage it. It is my opinion that this is valuable. I did define "good", internally consistent languages with strong guidelines for developers. I made no statements about mature PHP codebases as they are irrelevant to my argument. I do accept that people prefer less "opinionated" languages, I too fall into this camp, but I am no longer a new developer, as such this point is entirely irrelevant to what I was saying. Nitpicking individual points whilst misconstruing what I said is neither useful or appreciated.