Hi!
IMO the more interesting discussion to be had is how little we invest into the technology our whole platform is based on. You'd think the largest production user of PHP would pay at least one part-time PHP developer, or try to represent itself in standards and roadmap discussions, but we do not. Is that normal?
I think this is a very good point. There are other ways to support PHP too. Like assisting in regular testing of upcoming versions. Helping writing the docs. Contributing to RFC discussions (we have a large codebase, heavily visited site, and a lot of experience dealing with it, surely there could be a thing or two we could contribute). Triaging the bugs (one of the most necessary, thankless, and under-appreciated jobs in an open-source project). Probably more...