Because it was my point, not yours. Yours is, "yes it's cack, but I can use it just fine". Good. I'm glad. I don't care, though, because it's still a piece of cack. I'm not trying to convince you to stop using it: you have your reasons. But I am wholly recommending that people don't start using it. Life is too short to work with inferior tools whether they can be used or not.

And I wasn't saying those problems were necessarily affecting you. But they are absolutely, positively indications of the poor quality of PHP overall, whether you can work around the issues or not. The language is a mess.

You're supporting my point by talking about how unorthogonal and inconsistent it is, and how many bad PHP programmers there are, and how poor the community is with respect to quality. Those are all excellent reasons not to use PHP as well.

As far as a repaired and trimmed PHP, it's never going to happen. The attitude of Zend and the enormity of the task are such that PHP is always going to be pear shaped.