I'm not sure what point you're trying to make by mentioning Hack.

At this point it's diverged from PHP to the point that it's basically a different language, is (IIRC) actually slower than PHP 8, and the HHVM doesn't even support PHP any more.

As such, it's not a huge surprise that relatively few people outside of Meta give it much attention.

I also moved on from PHP several years ago, and don't miss it. That doesn't mean I don't recognise that there are still perfectly legitimate reasons to choose it.

Yep.

And meta/hack is probably the other huge mainstay of PHP outside of what the person you responded to said. And hack with HHVM was supposed to be the panacea for PHP

Just saying.

What people used to use PHP for tasks, has largely been replaced by Python.