Some of the things people complain about are genuinely silly and not important like the names of functions or the order of their parameters. Even complaints about == vs === are often a result of misunderstandings around object identity and equality.
But there are (many) other things that PHP does that are surprising and actually incorrect. The fact that it took until about last year for json_decode to do the correct thing around null is evidence of the kind of minefield that PHP is. It's actually wrong. Like, not subjectively, or "that's your opinion, man" wrong- actually logically incorrect behavior.
If you believe that it's okay for a real, professional, programming language to not have actual List, Stack, Dictionary, Set constructs; and to not have threads or async; and a broken foreach, then you're on your own.
EDIT: Also, it's the same arguments from 2007 because PHP hasn't actually improved that much since then. Furthermore, way strong languages have come on the scene since 2007, so some of those things are even less acceptable today than they were in 2007.
But there are (many) other things that PHP does that are surprising and actually incorrect. The fact that it took until about last year for json_decode to do the correct thing around null is evidence of the kind of minefield that PHP is. It's actually wrong. Like, not subjectively, or "that's your opinion, man" wrong- actually logically incorrect behavior.
If you believe that it's okay for a real, professional, programming language to not have actual List, Stack, Dictionary, Set constructs; and to not have threads or async; and a broken foreach, then you're on your own.
EDIT: Also, it's the same arguments from 2007 because PHP hasn't actually improved that much since then. Furthermore, way strong languages have come on the scene since 2007, so some of those things are even less acceptable today than they were in 2007.