After having been in an abusive relationship for a while, and having liberated yourself from it, I imagine a lot of folks wouldn't go back, even if that other person has presumably improved their ways...
I recently had to work on a large php project with mixed all and new php; it’s very refreshing vs node/react etc. Enough to make me wonder about the choices I made in my work life.
I started with php when it was still a perl script and did it professionally for 10 years after that.
After 6 years of Clojure, I went back to PHP because it now has type safety and an amazing ecosystem of high quality libraries, allowing me to be very performant in my work. But then again, I was never in a abusive relationship because back when I did PHP, I didn't really know any better, so it was totally fine.
I started with php when it was still a perl script and did it professionally for 10 years after that.