I loved the straightforwardness of just having a nice simple HTML page with some <?PHP ?> sprinkled in. Now everything has to be done through a million layers o

I loved the straightforwardness of just having a nice simple HTML page with some <?PHP ?> sprinkled in. Now everything has to be done through a million layers of indirection. Which is fine when it's necessary, but I still like to write my own pages as simple unstructured PHP.