"most things become popular for very good reasons"
Sure. But those reasons are gone. Long gone. So please, wrap it out already.
"that is what a web server does"
Did. Most PHP apps don't use /some-article.php and /another-article.php with relevant PHP files under those names, that would be bizzare. There surely is A routing FRAMEWORK those days.
"One PHP file per page is also not true"
...if you're using A FRAMEWORK.
"There is also no 'default templating', I can pipe to, or make PHP calls from the command line"
So what? There's still default templating outside <? ?>
And that's what you use unless you've got A FRAMEWORK.
Do you see a pattern here? The pattern is that you didn't read my comment, you used regexes instead. Sadly.
"that is what a web server does" Did. Most PHP apps don't use /some-article.php and /another-article.php with relevant PHP files under those names, that would be bizzare. There surely is A routing FRAMEWORK those days.
"One PHP file per page is also not true" ...if you're using A FRAMEWORK.
"There is also no 'default templating', I can pipe to, or make PHP calls from the command line" So what? There's still default templating outside <? ?> And that's what you use unless you've got A FRAMEWORK.
Do you see a pattern here? The pattern is that you didn't read my comment, you used regexes instead. Sadly.