I have been coding in PHP for 15 years (not exclusively) and indeed many things had to improve. Nevertheless, many other languages also had to. Just as an example, PHP had a much more mature vendor requirements system than Go and years before! What I see many people tend to fail to observe is that a language is also good as the amount of value it can being to the business and in that PHP was and still is phenomenal. Anyhow, I'm really happy to see how it has evolved.