Let's adopt this attitude toward those who use what we might consider inferior tools (PHP in this example): it is harder to succeed with an inferior tool, thus success with it is to be all the more admired - in the same way that one might admire someone who implemented a web server on a TRS-80, or dug a basement with a simple shovel.

From there, one can ask: why did you do it that way? And then do our best to learn from the answer.