Maybe it's not the problem with PHP but most shopping cart built on PHP was dated back 4-5 years. They are too lazy to simplify it. When Magento came out, I tho

Maybe it's not the problem with PHP but most shopping cart built on PHP was dated back 4-5 years. They are too lazy to simplify it. When Magento came out, I thought that was it. But it's getting bloated like anything else. If someone wanted to have a simple responsive design site and image zoom capability, it's multiple steps (install, get add-on, fix templates... ). Anything out of the box these days are just not needed or lack of latest features. I think with node.js/sails/mongodb as backend and Bootstrap/AngularJS as frontend, things could be simplified 100x. I had heck of a time just to find which Magento file to modify the template for left menu...