If you use it for new stuff with up to date frameworks (e.g. symfony) it's not that bad, really. Since 5.4 it's getting a lot better. If you're stuck with some

If you use it for new stuff with up to date frameworks (e.g. symfony) it's not that bad, really. Since 5.4 it's getting a lot better. If you're stuck with some old version and legacy codebase it's a problem unrelated to the language itself.