I get it. Old PHP was a joke, so people (including me) are biased against it. I would personally love to get beyond that bias. However, every single time I ins

I get it. Old PHP was a joke, so people (including me) are biased against it. I would personally love to get beyond that bias. However, every single time I install any piece of software written in PHP, it's simply a nightmare (e.g. Matomo, rss-bridge). Unhelpful error messages, unexplained or undocumented features, all held together with metaphorical duct tape. I always have to dive into the source code to figure out things that a README or tutorial should be able to help me with. I can't recall ever doing that with tools written in any other language. Is it simply that PHP programmers care so little about their products?