This is quite a strange take I'll give you that. I don't think it broke any of that, I think it fixed all of that. And PHP 5,7 will continue to work just fine

This is quite a strange take I'll give you that. I don't think it broke any of that, I think it fixed all of that. And PHP 5,7 will continue to work just fine for a while. There still supported backports and images of PHP 5 to this day on any major operating system.