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THIS... elebenty billion %. The breaking changes of PHP upgrades make the hosting life a nightmare. It's so easy in the vacuum of a single developer with a single application to think everyone should keep up to date, but the reality is most of the PHP sites on the internet are owned by non-technical people.

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> It's so easy in the vacuum of a single developer with a single application to think everyone should keep up to date, but the reality is most of the PHP sites on the internet are owned by non-technical people

"Non-technical" people who don't plan for maintenance costs to their software (including maintenance to keep up with dependencies like PHP) don't get a ton of sympathy from me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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