I'm not ashamed to admit that sometimes I miss PHP.

Over 20 years later, and still nobody's even come _close_ to PHP's ease of deployment.

This tweet brought to you by the 3 programming languages and 5 Docker images I need just to run one app.

— jacobian (@jacobian) August 19, 2019

The complexity is the point, not some side effect.

Give me a few million dollars, a half dozen good coders and a year, and I could come up with something twice as good as the current mess, 1/100th as complex, and that used fewer resources and was easy for anyone with minimal IT chops to use. That’ll never happen, though, because it being difficult is the whole idea.