I don't know what you mean with PHP-esque really but I don't find it to make it messy, on the contrary the whole point seems to be to make Python more consisten

I don't know what you mean with PHP-esque really but I don't find it to make it messy, on the contrary the whole point seems to be to make Python more consistent and there are well-thought out plans for how to migrate code from one version to the other.