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Mitchell Hashimoto has been supporting Vagrant users for several years now. I wouldn't be surprised if that experience has led him to such a conclusion in regards to the use of Vagrant, e.g. all uses have dependency on a version of Ruby/PHP and some versions of some number of libraries and so on. The same abstractions allow control despite differences at a finer grain.

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The number of variations on PHP applications are infinite:

1. Apache or Nginx+PHP-FPM 2. INI Configuration 3. PHP Extensions and their INI configuration 4. Vhost Configuration, especially rewriting rules 5. Docroot in app root, or dedicated directory

This cant possible be defined in a common/generic way and supporting more than 50% of the use-cases.

There is a reason why complex click to configure interfaces exist for PHP and Vagrant with Phansible http://phansible.com/ and PHPuppet.

Doesn't matter. There's always the 80/20 rule. It doesn't have to catter to any and all exotic need. One could always customize further (even script that) after Otto's initialization.

Besides a lot of this variety is because people don't follow best practices, and instead have a hodgepodge of this and that technologies, with this and that settings.

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