Beginners being herded into command line due to composer
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And I say that as a PHP developer who spent the majority of his time working through FTP and a text editor, manually dealing with dependencies, installing from ZIP files, dealing with the peculiarities of hand-rolled autoloaders and module systems. Drag them all into the harsh light of modernity.
And by "modernity" I mean "the modernity of thirty years ago," but nevertheless. Given the choice between sane dependency management in PHP and not learning the command line learn the command line.