PHP laughably adds warts almost as fast as it removes them, then codifies the new ones as intentional. Hack was a good attempt, but I fear it's too late to fix

PHP laughably adds warts almost as fast as it removes them, then codifies the new ones as intentional. Hack was a good attempt, but I fear it's too late to fix the soup of features by forking/cloning. I sincerely believe another language will replace it (not python), if they havent already (javascript shudder). I've used PHP professionally for over 20 years along with other languages. The decisioning of language design, at large, has been mired in "good enough and doesn't break backward compatibility" nonsense all over the spectrum. PHP was the poster child of thinking differently in the 90s. Make the languages BETTER by looking at others, not clutching your Perls /s. Arcane sigils are not the way forward, that's a known (eg Erlang, Haskell, Pony, Perl, etc), even with powerful features that put existing languages to shame.