as your average PHP enjoyer, I agree with all of these complaints, but also will note - you really need to train the team on PHP footguns, which are as bad as

as your average PHP enjoyer, I agree with all of these complaints, but also will note - you really need to train the team on PHP footguns, which are as bad as C foot guns - finding PHP programmers is easy. - your shits already written in PHP - in the same way rolling your own stdlib in C is silly, leverage good PHP frameworks ymmv but its not that bad. at least it keeps my day exciting.