I haven't worked with recent PHP versions, other than through WordPress, which, if I understand correctly, does PHP a big disservice. My last serious encounter

I haven't worked with recent PHP versions, other than through WordPress, which, if I understand correctly, does PHP a big disservice. My last serious encounter was when I build and scaled a WordPress hosting company 5+ years ago. Which meant all my exposure to PHP was WordPress, which meant I wanted to avoid it as much as possible.