Em, considering that this comment of yours is just a blanket accusation, without any arguments at all, whereas I replied to the parent point by point, the proverb "people living in glasshouses", etc comes to mind.

I, for one, in my comment:

1) reminded that the availability of "dirt cheap VMs" doesn't make PHP installation any easier compared to a hosting provider (just drop PHP files into folder -- or just select a PHP app to be installed from a Web panel).

2) Having lots of documentation is a benefit, even if "much of it is wrong" in some way. It it works, people will use it, be it wrong or not, and they will get bootstrapped enough with their app to eventually replace it with something better. If we demanded near perfection from everyone, the web would be 1/1000 the size -- it's the ability to also have "wrong" stuff work that made it huge.

3) That "most of PHP developers posses shockingly small amount of knowledge" is not against but in favour of the language. Those people also need to get something done, and if they can achieve that with PHP, more power to them.

The complaints are elitist cries, that only some deeply knowledgable programmers should be allowed to code stuff for the web.

I find the possibility of somebody with limited knowledge writing a webpage or even a webapp in PHP empowering. And if you don't like to consider my opinion, ask Derek Shivers.