I don't think it's true that experienced hands will be faster in PHP than in Python or JS or whatever. It's just about what you know, and experienced hands are experienced.

PHP is faster to develop in then Pythin or JS then addin a framework like Laravel and you are already done.

Python has the curse of spaces or tabs and JS has the curse of npm.

PHP has the curse of T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM.