As other commenters point out, most PHP written today goes through a framework that negates most of these points (single entry point, modern architecture, code is precompiles/cached and optimised, simple and intuitive goes through the window)
On the more general point, I am not sure scripting languages lend themselves better to lamdbas, as dependencies are usually external to the system.
For instance PHP often relies on system json/xml libraries. Database access also needs to be precompiled and installed on the system, as would be crypto or internalionalization routines.
Compared to that, I'd expect compiled runtimes can have one single "fat" binary that has most of the risky dependencies and only rely on the bare minimum provided by the system.
On the more general point, I am not sure scripting languages lend themselves better to lamdbas, as dependencies are usually external to the system. For instance PHP often relies on system json/xml libraries. Database access also needs to be precompiled and installed on the system, as would be crypto or internalionalization routines.
Compared to that, I'd expect compiled runtimes can have one single "fat" binary that has most of the risky dependencies and only rely on the bare minimum provided by the system.