This such a typical response of people who live in a bubble, and get angry when nobody else in the real world agrees with their insane ideas.
Just because people think PHP is garbage doesn't mean they don't know what they're talking about. In fact, in my experience, the hatred many experience people in the industry have of PHP almost always comes directly from having been forced to use it.
In my case, I've worked on several large PHP projects (100k+ sloc, developed over 10+ years by many people) and it's by far the single worst language and set of tools I ever used.
Literally everything from the language, to the runtime, to the standard library, third party libraries, etc. is just complete and utter amateur hour, and is done so much better in almost any other language ecosystem out there.
I'm glad you're somehow able to make it work for you, but don't pretend it's good. It's really not.