As someone who helps people to learn programming, I'd like to challenge your statement that PHP "is an easiest door to open.. by a long shot".

The reality is that the easiest way for a beginner to do a finished product is a make as static HTML webpage with Javascript fetching dynamic data from a remote datastore/website. The cognitive load of request-response model from the client side view is much smaller than from a server side and you actually write your first code in any browser console.