I don't wanna learn new programming languages
I wrote a fair bit of bash for awhile, for some scripts on my linux machine. But there's absolutely no reason to. I know PHP extremely well. I've used it for about a decade now, on and off. I've written ridiculous amounts of code in PHP.
It's not the fastest language. But it does everything because it is a programming language. It works server-side, you can use it for command-line tools, and ... well I don't bother with GUIs (unless you count "web-apps" ig) but I bet it can do that too.
I don't code full time and I don't work for a company. I used to code 20-30 hours a week on personal open source projects that ... were supposed to be entrepreneurial, but never really had a business plan.
The main issue I have with learning a new language is just that i already know PHP. I also have a ton of software I've written in PHP that isn't portable to another language. But the learning curve is the main issue. For the same reason, I have little interest in learning how to use any new library that's 10% better than the last.
I watched so many tech videos for so long that I constantly felt like I was doing something wrong or needed to learn more or whatever.
But can I accomplish my goal? Yes. Well, no actually. But for me the holdup is mental illness & limited ability to be productive, not a lack of skill in programming nor any deficit in my language of choice.
There's valid criticisms of PHP, but it just doesn't matter to me. It has zero bearing on my life if my program runs in 20 milliseconds or 1.5 milliseconds.
I'm proficient in HTML & CSS. I'm decent at Javascript (in the browser), Regex, and MySQL. These answer specific use cases that PHP isn't for, so that's all fine. No need to learn any variations on any of these either, like typescript or an object-oriented query library or a different database language.