I tracked the warnings and I keep up with changes out of necessity. But that's the least they can do - anything else would be insanity. However it does not make me feel any better when debugging version/compatibility/configuration issues between the language, different libraries and the environment.

I'm not saying there aren't good reasons for _some_ of the changes, including historical error prone baggage. I'm also not in any way try to disrespect the maintainers. But to say PHP is a stable language and ecosystem still does not reflect my experience with it.