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Magento is not exactly known for well written code, actually it is full of anti patterns and antiqued practices. PHP 7 was released in 2015, and if authors of those millions of lines of code can't be bothered to upgrade then probably their code should not be used.

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> Magento is not exactly known for well written code

As are many/most PHP 5.6 projects

> Probably their code should not be used.

In reality it is - unfortunately. And many smaller companies don't have the capacity to change.

Those smaller companies will find out maintenance is costly either way.

And it's worse than just maintenance cost. Do you think a good PHP dev wants to join a shop that's still on 5?

There was nothing crippling about php5 when it came out, why would it matter now? Not having some nice-to-haves like null coalescing, return types, etc are not core features. The biggest php7 selling point was speed improvements, which isn't even on some lists (https://feryn.eu/blog/php-7-is-now-available-new-features-im...)

Agreed with both statements, but things need to move forward.

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