Yeah, but if we continue that logic and fill up that "etc etc" it would seem that the other languages have their own bad features and PHP combines them all.
That "all" is what I'm referring to when I mentioned confirmation bias. PHP programs don't segfault when you have a typo. You don't have macro expansion problems. It's not particularly verbose. Most languages have a ton of issues. Imho, the stuff in the PHP list is pretty minor compared to some of the warts in some other languages.