I agree “it doesn’t have threads” is a bullshit reason. Especially since it took JS's threadlessness to make evented (aka async, aka promise-based, aka callback-based, aka eventloop-based) mainstream, and for good reasons! It allows many to maximize the compute resources better than possible with the threaded approach.

There are good reasons to avoid/switch-away-from PHP... Like weak compile time quality guarantees, messy std lib, low quality of available libraries, many security issues; all WHILE great alternatives exist for free! (e.g. Kotlin, Rust, C#, Java)