The batteries included aspect of PHP is very 1990s. It's the thing I always disliked the most about PHP in that so much of the functionality required PHP to be

The batteries included aspect of PHP is very 1990s. It's the thing I always disliked the most about PHP in that so much of the functionality required PHP to be built with all kinds of stuff compiled in and in shared hosting environments you would be at the mercy of however the admins built their PHP (not to mention having to deal with the overhead of having loads of code that you might not want in your system). Maybe it's gotten better since I was writing PHP code 14 years ago, but ugh.