It's also the thing I'm best at!
They cherish their languages but are not fanatics.
It's so refreshing knowing that my websites auto update themselves and I never have to update them unless there is a legitimate reason to do so.
Backwards compatibility is the ONLY thing I care about in a framework. Life's too short to babysit some frameworks ideas of how my code should work ten years after building the damn thing.
I used to be Symfony snob too but tried Laravel and I definitely see its strengths.
Laravel was not the right choice with our homegrown, non-framework app, with an existing schema.
For a business that has engineers to manage this day to day it's less of an issue. For building things you want to live online untouched for a decade it's just not an option.
Laravel is nice to build stuff fast in one particular way. It's awful to maintain and heaven forbid you have a different idea about how things should be done.
Maybe because they have been actively sabotaging progress and dissing those pushing for progress? gophp5 in 2008 pushed everyone but Wordpress off PHP4 and some Wordpress core committers as recently as 2017 have called gophp5 an "abysmal failure" despite it was anything but.
My go to for this is to say "I don't think Typescript is needed most of the time". The snobs look at you like you just farted in their face.
But having done some coding interviews where time and space complexity were a factor, I found it easier to succeed with Python.
This is a terrible example, typescript (especially in 2023) is basically free with most setups (including vanilla) and easy to ignore for velocity then optionally enforce typechecking later.
A much better hill to die on would be large frameworks/tooling like react/angular/webpack.
In the grand scheme of things, talking solely about software projects not life in general, it kind of is.
Most modern languages, are interchangeable, and projects of most kinds have been done with all of them succesfully.
As long as the programmers for the chosen language are available, and the libs you want are there, for startups doing some web backend for example, it doesn't really matter if it's Python, Ruby, JS/Node, PHP, C#, Go, Java, CL, Kotlin, Clojure, and so on.
Besides, I included CL there.
I do actually pick it for several reasons.
Sure as we progress along in the interview process I will switch to whatever language the company uses primarily but if I get a choice I always choose PHP.