The overall business impact on using php vs any other language is clearly huge. No other language is split into a separate market for developers and VC capital.

The overall business impact on using php vs any other language is clearly huge. No other language is split into a separate market for developers and VC capital. JS hate couldn't stop its use completely for any company that needs a website, Java will likely be running something whether you develop your API in it or not, only php hate combined with php's only role in the stack being high but substitutable can eliminate it from businesses and developer mindset with prejudice at some companies and make it the dominant language at others.