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Christian Kozalla

Hey Korey, I have noticed that, too. A few months ago before I got to know PHP. I am self-taught in HTML, CSS and JS for only about a year...so can't really judge.
My only guess is, that PHP is pretty old and paved the way for dynamic websites earlier as a server-side scripting language. But with modern webdevelopment and the rise of frontend frameworks, scripting is done more on the client-side with JS. Plus, JS move to backend server-side with node.
Here in Germany there are many job offers requiring skills in PHP since many apps still rely on it, so there's no hate at all!