Are you somehow under the impression that developers are the Borg? Different developers can have different opinions on what PHP should be.

A lot of the time, it's developers who don't use PHP who complain its not standardised, and developers who do use PHP who complain when it does change! To be contrary, I'm a PHP developer who likes the on-going standardisation, but didn't really find it too big a problem the existing way. YMMV.