I've been slowly trying to get back into hobby/side development after not being a professional developer for 11 years. Even when I was a full-time developer, I was never really in a "junior" role or dropped into an existing, quality codebase, so much of what I was doing was from scratch. Although my coding did improve as our team grew and it forced me to be more disciplined, I never learned a lot of little hints like this that make your code much clearer.

In getting back into it, I've relied a lot of Laracast's tutorials in both learning Laravel, along with how much PHP has evolved in the past 11 years, but also some of his code quality videos, which included one on this very topic! After seeing that, I immediately started refactoring some recent code I had written with the goal of flattening it to as few indents as possible by eliminating else's and elseif's. Sure enough, I was much happier with the refactored code than I was with the original, even if the output of the code was the same.