Only ever seen it praised in these threads specifically about PHP on HN. Where everyone who uses it says how amazing it is, and oddly enough, has no negatives to talk about.
PHP doesn't have many negatives. Even the go-to negatives aren't really. Many cite "rebuilding the environment everytime" as a con, but it's a pro in terms of horizontal scaling/load balancing. I for one would like PHP to have generics. It doesn't have that and plausibly will never have it (without a superset like TypeScript for JS).