I've used Laravel and agree that PHP isn't all bad and can be used intelligently. And this is coming from a former CodeIgniter core dev (if you recall). But being real, you've got to admit that most PHP projects aren't in Laravel, they're batshit spaghetti code continually reinventing (or outright ignoring) the standard patterns that come in a boilerplate rails projects.

That probably has more to do with PHP being such an easy language to get started with, inviting a lot of rookies/cowboys to the party.