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> And, there is a good reason people shy away from PHP

I agree, I also strongly dislike Angular and MySQL in addition to PHP. But I also think a much better indicator for success is discipline. Angular, PHP and MySQL, to their credit, aren’t crazy Turing tarpits, you can write good, successful software with them.

I’ve never seen a dysfunctional project where any of the inherent flaws of those technologies even registered on the same scale as the sheer malpractice of everyone working on the product. And this is also the problem with trendy and flashy stacks, developers not learning the stacks properly and using them as intended. Probably due to commercial pressure to push prototypes to production instead of rebuilding properly after learning the stack. I think that should be the takeaway from the original comment, that CTOs need to either budget for building it twice, or stick to a stack everyone knows inside and out.