Well you could say that for anything that doesn't a) Require 'compose' (as you say, no bundler) - so no dependency management (not ideal) or your code is so mi

Well you could say that for anything that doesn't a) Require 'compose' (as you say, no bundler) - so no dependency management (not ideal) or your code is so minimal it doesn't need any, which isn't the case for large projects b) Require any infrastructure that's hosting the PHP app needing to be configured in the first place. That was conveniently overlooked. i.e. You don't even need to SFTP any files with something like Heroku or PaaS. It's an apples and oranges comparison imho