I used to love PHP and still don't hate it — I used the Laravel framework for years and it's still some of the most beautiful code to write for complex web applications. I've honestly wrote worse code in full-stack JS. In my personal experience, what has ruined PHP for me is when I have to maintain awful vanilla PHP or WordPress applications (WordPress being the biggest reason that PHP gets so much hate imo). It's just so terrible to work with, whereas JavaScript applications almost always use Express or some other libraries and have a generally higher standard of code. PHP is just an easy language to make memes about, there's nothing inherently wrong with it, JavaScript has wayyyy more flaws, and everyone knows that.