It's not terrible at making it easy to find good people working on it and making money.

And yet somehow it handily powers over 75% of websites today.[1]

[1]: https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programmin...

I am not a big fan of PHP, but I remember generating CSS with it. Everybody found that _completely unacceptable_. Now most tools generate CSS in JS and mix structure and styling, and behaviour (using components). Fashion definitely has a strong influence on devs.

The worst developers (as in bad practices, poor code quality, communication problems, zero care for product and just focus on tech, and extreme over or under engineering solutions) that I've found in my 20 year career also happened to be the ones blaming their tools instead of looking at their own practices, skills and beliefs.

Not saying this is the case because I don't know you, but that's been the common theme for a long time.

It's like hearing a carpenter complaining their hammer is just not good and nobody should use hammers and they should instead use a screwdriver because everyone knows how bad and outdated hammers are.