>>TimWol+(OP)
I write PHP every day and I don't mind the language at all. It's not exciting per-say, but it's a good tool for the job. My real complaint is about how it's served via Apache and my real problem there is that Apache just depends on a lot of things being in the right place and it can suck for updates since it's harder to keep all things config in your repo. Docker is probably a fix for that, but there's an internal political battle there that I'd rather not touch.
I know this is contradictory to what some people love about PHP, but having a directory where everything is isolated and I just run npm start or my go binary or whatever is much easier to reason about for me, rather than also have to think about Apache's end.