I'd like PHP more were it not for the army of amateur programmers hacking wordpress.
Often times, as a programmer, it's easier for me to change my environment, language, or learn their stack to be helpful to them than it is for the company to switch their stack because of my unwavering views on "right" languages.
There's a lot of really great developers that got their feet wet with dev work because Wordpress is immediately accessible and helpful. They just needed a playground to write shoddy code before they matured and perfected their craft.
In my opinion, I'd rather people write shoddy code and improve it than wait until they've ready enough books to write perfect code, but never actually start.
Doing something subpar now is often better than waiting till it's perfect and not doing it at all.
I'm freelance (aka ronin) and so the job security is actually a bit spotty. :)
I've been a paid programmer for over 40 years. When some code has seriously gone off the rails I can help.