JIRA being slow and sluggish doesn't really have anything to do with configuration. It's a horrible tool to navigate UX-wise.
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If you're doing online shopping/purchases chances are you have a phone though.
It's usually database calls, external API's etc..
For example, JIRA is as slow as a dehydrated donkey because its database schemas are exceptionally awful.
Won't your prototyping be faster in Go/Python/Node/Ruby anyway, with a more stable surface to build upon it? I really fail to see where PHP has its place in 2019. For your "build a minimally viable product fast", the above win. For enterprise stuff, the good old Java/C# win.
I have no idea why you'd choose it over Go/Node.js/Ruby or similar for your standard webdev stuff.