I'm not sure why you're getting modded down, I think you make a very obvious point. There is a programming language (syntax) and there are libraries. PHP syntax

I'm not sure why you're getting modded down, I think you make a very obvious point. There is a programming language (syntax) and there are libraries. PHP syntax is not informed by much of Computer Science of the 30 past years, and it can't be fixed, that would be a new language. Frameworks can evolve and as long as the syntax allows enough, can be as amazing as anyone bothers to engineer them. This has nothing to do with how good a language actually is.