Couldn't agree more. Every time I use annotations I feel dirty... Programmers who talk so much about code separation, clean modular structure etc are the same

Couldn't agree more. Every time I use annotations I feel dirty... Programmers who talk so much about code separation, clean modular structure etc are the same ones are willing to use annotations. What got into them? Disclaimer: I like code to be elegant. And practical. This is PHP we're talking about, but no need to do more bad choices...