To me PHP is just a weirder Python or Ruby. In some ways I like it more than Python.

But what I've never liked about it is the big ini file. I don't really begrudge there being runtime settings for an interpreted language, but I've always found PHP to have waaaay too many settings, many of which have potentially odd defaults and/or can be asinine footguns by accident.

That said, I can't get myself to love JS no matter how much I use it. On some level not having separate numeric types for floating point and integers just annoys me a lot. It is obviously the interpreted language that benefited most from typing for a reason. I'm sure there's more to why I don't really love, despite using my whole career.

PHP package management actually works, for one thing :P