>Yes! Please, for the love of all that is holy, please quit writing tools that make me write code in something that isn't a general purpose programming language! Didn't we learn from Ant and xml?

Yes, we learned to use less powerful languages where it was appropriate because they're more readable and less susceptible to technical debt.

This principle, in other words : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power

Ant XML was as powerful as Java - it was turing complete and terribly designed to boot. That was its primary failing.

Likewise, using turing complete PHP to generate HTML was never as clean as using a less powerful templating language (like jinja2) to generate the HTML. Separation of concerns with a language barrier is a good thing.

If all of this means nothing to you, you've probably created some huge code messes in your time.