I don't think I've used a superglobal in 10 years, because of all the reasons you list. This is why you have a senior developer on a project doing code reviews.

I don't think I've used a superglobal in 10 years, because of all the reasons you list. This is why you have a senior developer on a project doing code reviews. Hack is a technical solution that brings lots of problems of its own. By all means use it, but not because of that feature.