PHP to me is a bit like the new Perl. Sometimes you just need a small script that does one thing well. Took me 10-15 minutes to implement an interface for customer support so they can look up a clients last order based on incoming phone number (via Aircall) or name and surname. FTP'd it to an already existing company server and it just works. And saves them weeks of time over a year probably. Nobody cares that I debugged it via die("error");

With Python I'd be stuck reading the latest tutorial on how to deploy virtualenv properly. Java/Spring I'd die of boredom before I figure out where WebMvcAutoConfigurationAdapter wants me to put Bootstrap css this year. Sometimes you just want a quick solution to an easy problem and move on to other things than coding, and I find PHP fits that use case perfectly.