Have a look at Zend's SDK. It's full of such nonsense. Symfony also tries very hard to look like Java, complete with verbose naming and files paths.

Maybe. I avoid stuff like that. See https://www.slimframework.com for example.

Seems more like a dig on inheritance and the resultant code than java as a language.

Well, two layers of factory classes, one calling the other, plus a big xml blob is pretty Java specific. I'm open to to common counter examples in some other language.

There's inheritance, and there's overindulgence.

Interface based polymorphism is pretty useful. Been thinking more functionally lately, and can’t remember needing it. Parametric polymorphism ( aka generics ) are still useful for the immutable state graph.