You see, turns out the design choices for which PHP is the wrong tool start to very seriously overlap the design choices that are best for most projects written

You see, turns out the design choices for which PHP is the wrong tool start to very seriously overlap the design choices that are best for most projects written in PHP these days. But you can only know this if you are even aware of these design choices, and their benefits. PHP's architecture isn't the best paradigm for web development & "web scale" despite years of brainwashing in the PHP community. It's not the best by far. So we have countless PHP apps shoved into the PHP paradigm for no better reason except that this is what PHP offers. I've seen this happen a few times before with various technologies and I recognize the signs. Despite PHP supporters talk about PHP's bright future, the fact it's seriously starting to resemble a bad Java clone is only further moving us to the point people will start abandoning PHP in droves. An example from the recent past which PHP devs might be familiar with is Flash. Flash's future was extremely bright mere year before it imploded very suddenly and "unexpectedly" to the uninitiated. The signs were there for years prior to that.