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I don't know too much about PHP (aside from it getting memed on constantly), but kbin is built using the Symfony framework, which is really performant and mature based on what I've heard from others. Also, apparently ~80% of all websites (that W3techs knows about) rely on PHP in some way
The 80% stem mostly from WordPress and a bunch of domain placeholders.
Sure but there's also Pornhub, Wikipedia, and Facebook which use PHP. Other large websites use PHP too.
Facebook doesn't really use PHP, but Hack, which is afair a PHP dialect and runtime/compiler.
WordPress, Joomla, Typo3, Drupal, ... PHP is pretty much omnipresent in CMS systems. It's not a huge number of different PHP CMS, but it results in a huge number of websites being PHP-based. The vast majority of those websites don't care for the programming language - they pick an existing CMS so they don't have to do their own programming.
Youre interpreting those statistics wrong. Those statistics refer to website using server side rendering, not all websites in the world. So the correct statement would be that 80% of server side programming languages used for websites is written in PHP.