Exactly! I'm not interested in link bait. I'm just really depressed after I finally made the realization--just last night--that the language I've been using for years is going nowhere but down.
It looks to me that the only thing going down is you, as a programmer. You've been writing PHP scripts all your life, I understand why you are depressed.
$this cannot be used in lambdas or closures. So, when it comes to using these new features with objects, they're quite nearly completely useless.
... except "This is bullshit?" I mean, that's the censored version of what I think about this.