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> I don't see how PHP is a templating language [...] Nobody writes PHP mixing HTML and PHP anymore

PHP is designed to be a template language, but it's a terrible template language, so nobody (it is claimed) uses it as it was originally designed to be used anymore.

So "use PHP" is not good advice if what you mean is "use a web framework and a separate third-party template language", which works just as well in any language and doesn't give PHP any particular advantage.