Thank you for your opinion. I agree: "A lot of PHP is just wrappers around C." In fact, we can also find PHP functions with the same names as in C. We can also save effort by using these wrapper functions.
Therefore, I believe it is misguided to compare code volume to suggest that one language is superior or inferior to another. If the volume of code were the basis for such a judgment, then machine language would have to be considered the most inferior language of all.