PHP has some neat concepts and attributes. It’s stateless, „serverless“, flexible, fast and has batteries included. This leads to ease and some simplicity. But

PHP has some neat concepts and attributes. It’s stateless, „serverless“, flexible, fast and has batteries included. This leads to ease and some simplicity. But it’s plagued by footguns on one side and overengineered „OO“ frameworks on the other. These lead to complexity and suffering. The language requires too much discipline and „special“ knowledge for my taste.