[kristopolous]

Comparatively speaking PHP has likely the most backwards compatibility with respect to actual wall time when compared with other common options.

It has many tools for the competent and the incompetent.

I'm sure your personal experience sucked, just like many people's personal experience with Java.

But let's not conflate the output of some set of practitioners with the design of the language. The fact that php can be so accommodating to the incompetent can be seen as a virtue. Dumpster fire makers can set things ablaze with any tool and the avalanches of trash PHP code are endless. It is what it is.