And many of us took the jump and refused to do things that way. You're wrong, PHP scales and you CAN do separation of concerns and have pretty, maintanable code, using a framework or not: just a matter of knowing what you are doing
I think you're missing the point of the comment - when it comes to prototyping PHP is incredibly easy to whip out a buggy test thingy in minutes that breaks all best practices but still lets you prove a concept or prep a demo.
