Honestly PHP is not that bad. I find its flexibility quite good. What the article comments about needing a shoe or a bottle as being a disadvantage I say is actually an advantage in that it gives you many options to do something. Don't have the right tool? Build it. I will say that PHP in the last year has gotten worse however in that they continue to try and introduce new features that just aren't part of the PHP plan in the early days. Traits? Really? They should have just enhanced the functions they had and worked on simplifying things instead of adding new stuff.