>developer or user happiness Some developers just want to build software that works for a decade with a minor updates. They don't want to play a perpetual game

>developer or user happiness Some developers just want to build software that works for a decade with a minor updates. They don't want to play a perpetual game of catch up to the latest trend and dependency overhaul. A consistent old version of PHP is better than having to rewrite their code every year as language features become deprecated or changed.