Some of the points are outdated, but the soul of the article, that those stdlib inconsistencies and language quirks as you called it, lead to terrible design an

Some of the points are outdated, but the soul of the article, that those stdlib inconsistencies and language quirks as you called it, lead to terrible design and a lot of surprising footguns, is still quite true. Laravel is a good framework and it is because it hides a lot of PHP from the user.