So the PHP internals team made a poor decision, but because namespaces are better than the ridiculous measures taken to work around the lack of namespaces, they

So the PHP internals team made a poor decision, but because namespaces are better than the ridiculous measures taken to work around the lack of namespaces, they're vindicated? No. PHP may be getting better, but I can't stand it any longer after using things like Ruby and Python.