"When was the last time you looked at a PHP project and saw a list of all the third-party libraries and respective version numbers being used written in a singl

"When was the last time you looked at a PHP project and saw a list of all the third-party libraries and respective version numbers being used written in a single file..." Are you serious? This is what your hate boils down to: you don't know the PHP ecosystem well, at all. It seems like you've been living under a rock. Going to your 8-4 every day and hacking away at your company's codebase and not bothering to read up on the goings-on about your language will result in bad times.