Eh, that's not a great example. It can be hard to appreciate the simplicity of PHP when one's fully bought into the stockholm syndrome of another language/framework :)

Consider this: a hello world in PHP requires no knowledge of programming whatsoever: a file saying "hello world" is enough to get the text to show on a browser. Having two different pages requires no knowledge of if statements, nor of 404 handling.

On top of that, PHP silently manages a lot of plumbing for you: it will also do caching and streaming out of the box and it won't crash the server due to OS ulimit errors when you have a high number of concurrent requests hitting the same file.

Heck, you could stream result sets from a database to a streaming HTML document in like a dozen lines of PHP with no libraries 10 years ago. The equivalent machinery to achieve something similar in e.g. the latest Next.js today is beyond abysmal in comparison.