There are corner cases where goto is more convenient than hacking around it using higher-level constructs. It's not inherently evil. It's repeatedly been shown

There are corner cases where goto is more convenient than hacking around it using higher-level constructs. It's not inherently evil. It's repeatedly been shown that the developers of PHP regard it as a "kitchen sink" language where every feature is thrown in in some form so adding goto makes sense in that perspective.