I agree, but at the same time I've lived the PHP transformation as a professional developer and I think I know the reasoning. Maintainers and supporters of a l

I agree, but at the same time I've lived the PHP transformation as a professional developer and I think I know the reasoning. Maintainers and supporters of a language are usually people that are professionally very invested in the language. And therefore it's natural for them to steer the language towards fixing their pains first and foremost. And anyone who's been invested into a language for a long time, with lots of old code to improve and maintain, an enormous muscle memory for all things related to the language, thousands of snippets, patterns and libraries in your tool belt, knows that changing languages is not trivial. For someone directly involved into the language governance, it's actually easier to change the language. Even if that goes against the languages original spirit.