I believe object-orientation is dated

I don't know how many advances might be happening recently on some underground Smalltalk mailing-list, but in general, OOP has remained the same for decades.

Does everybody think it's good enough? Does nobody want new features that will make your code more expressive somehow? Watcha think?

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PHP may have become the ubiquitous language for dynamic webpages but does that change the fact the it's "a shit"?

Many people don't understand the reason behind all of these things they view as Just Working. PHP evolved to fit a certain niche and it hasn't evolved well. It was definitely not designed by language experts, but rather people with a goal in mind and approached the problem in a Go Horse way. And Go Horse always wins in the real world when the timespan is short. In the time it takes for you to get a PHP site up and running and before even thinking anything (which PHP developers don't do until they bump into a wall), your competitor has already started to think how to approach the problem correctly.

tl;dr: Don't let *blind* practicality get in the way of rational thinking.

but rather people with a goal in mind and approached the problem in a Go Horse way.

but rather people with a goal in mind who* approached the problem in a Go Horse way.

[...] and before even thinking anything (which PHP developers don't do until they bump into a wall) [...]

[...] and before even thinking about* anything [...]