"As usual the php community is resisting any change." This is obviously false statement. There were a lot of changes in PHP lately. However, PHP community is a huge community, millions strong, and it is natural that some people evaluate new things not only on coolness, but on practical and other criteria, and not everybody likes the changes - it would be very hard to produce a big change that is universally liked by millions (unless it has letter "i" in front, of course - so if you called it iSnow you'd have much better chance ;).

You should expect criticism and taking is by falsely accusing the whole huge community of "resisting any change" is exactly the wrong way to do it.