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Wordpress requires at least PHP 7.0... and will complain about it if it's not above 7.4 (which was released in 2019).

So this to me looks like WP is progressing with PHP, just slowly.

Frankly I don't have a massive problem with this.

The speed of Laravel's PHP baseline change may be appropriate for Laravel, because it is git-managed, more easily run in a container etc., but it's absolutely inappropriate for WordPress to chase the edge.

Compared to trying to stay up-to-date with needless Node.js changes and frameworks that get EOL'd as soon as there's something more fun to play with, it's a paradise.

Why don't people build things with a decade of life in mind?