Ask HN: Why am I feeling dumb with PHP?

Preface: pure opinion based, no rant, no hate, no everything.

I started my actual job 2 years ago, so i'm basically using PHP every day. I'm pretty good at it, but sometimes i feel that PHP is making me very dumb about programming.

I feel like i have to deal with tons of quirks and nonsenses, and i feel completely powerless when i have to think how to program. I feel like i have to think twice before solving a problem that in C i would solve in a more "natural" way.

Sometimes i have to touch some Javascript too and it makes me feel the same way, plus async stuff to me is so unnatural that i hate the async concept itself.

Do you have some similar experiences about X programming language? Let me know :)