I've been thinking about this a lot lately. PHP is a template language. It was literally created for embedding logic in HTML. So why on earth do we keep reaching for Twig, Blade, and Smarty?

A few months ago, I left a role maintaining a legacy PHP 5 codebase. The kind of system where "working fine" meant "nobody dares touch it" and maintenance was just crossing your fingers every time you merged. On paper, the architecture sounded simple: file-based routing. In reality, it was chaos.

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