Sorry, but because the dissonance is really confusing me: If you genuinely don't want to be using "open source software" and would prefer to pay for stuff, why

Sorry, but because the dissonance is really confusing me: If you genuinely don't want to be using "open source software" and would prefer to pay for stuff, why on earth are you building your app on top of an ancient legacy platform like this?! There are copious proprietary/paid frameworks and toolsets with the sophistication of PHP (which is hardly a high bar). Just buy one of those. I thought this was going to be an argument about Linux or clang or k8s or React or something. Not... 90's web stacks. No wonder you think open source doesn't work, you're trying to use the stuff open source developers abandoned years ago.