If you want to learn the history, go read "the history of PHP". There's tons opf it, none of it relevant to people who want to program modern PHP.
If you want to actually use PHP, or any other language, and the interpreter/compiler throws up errors that _cannot be understood_ by "using your brain" then that is both a bad design decision that should have been changed way back when, _and_ is a current bug in your interpreter/compiler that you need to fix.
> complaining about how everything should be "easy"
Not the worst thing to complain about.
Things that ought to be easy should be easy, so that time can be spent on solving hard problems.
T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM is an example of something easy made deliberately hard. Thousands of people had to search for it (it adds up in the aggregate).
And not only that, now there's mundane debates around whether or not it was a bad idea (such as right here, but also in the linked article). Further waste of time.
It’s not that hard, right. Nothing is really hard when an explanation is one search keyword away. But even a little bit becomes an issue when you fed up. This has nothing to do with skills and intelligence, the argument is emotional. If you don’t get fed up bit by bit in our profession or you work at the place where you have plenty of time to digest anything irrelevant, lucky you.
How is writing things in random languages "intellectual" ?
If I replace a random λέξη[0] in my comments with its equivalent in another language for no reason, is someone being "anti-intellectual" for thinking that's silly?
If you want to actually use PHP, or any other language, and the interpreter/compiler throws up errors that _cannot be understood_ by "using your brain" then that is both a bad design decision that should have been changed way back when, _and_ is a current bug in your interpreter/compiler that you need to fix.