In other news - outside of performative consumerism, most people are not spending time & money to replace all the non-PHP things in their lives, whenever those are no longer the latest and greatest.

Support for PHP7 has been discontinued. It's a matter of security, and performance is a plus. Upgrading systems has its cost, but the cost of data loss or leakage, exploitable through software that will not be patched anymore, will cost you even more.

> Support for PHP7 has been discontinued...

True. But given how zealous humans are [not] about bothering to patch / update / replace all their non-PHP computer hardware "when security"...

Re-skimming the article - yes, it definitely has a very heavy "New and Shiny!" emphasis. The security argument would go far better with:

https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-74/p...

etc...