That was 12 years ago. A 12 year out of date critique of a web technology that has had ongoing language updates and two entire rewrites in that interval should be viewed with some suspicion. Also, are you really just citing the title of the article and none of the content?
I'm not even defending PHP here, just questioning lazy kneejerk, "but it sucked once, so now I hate it forever" thinking.
What 'time' is that, exactly?
My car can do a 500km trip with a single half-hour charging stop. I cannot. I need a break in there to piss, maybe shit, grab some chow, and get a stretch.
In a gas car, I'd be pulling in to an On Route, sitting in the gas line for a few minutes, filling up, parking, then going in to hit the can, grab some chow, and leave.
In my BEV, I pull into the charger, plug in, go in to hit the can, grab some chow, and leave.
For this very standard and usual use case, charging while hitting the can and eating is actually faster than gassing up, hitting the can, and eating.
For people that a) go on long trips two or three times a year, and b) don't want to worry about fast charging on those trips, renting a car for those trips is more cost effective than driving an ICE car year round so that you can satisfy what is, in reality, an edge case.
Like, I'm sure you love using a cube van when you have to move a bunch of stuff, but you're not going to make a cube van your daily driver just in case you need to move a bunch of stuff.
It's both. If China were to shut down their dirty power plants and factories today, you'd have better air pretty damn fast.
But if you're driving on the highway in rush hour traffic for an hour or two a day, surrounded by cars with engine exhaust, you're breathing in all that crap right then and there.
And as more cars move to electric, your local pollution drops, which is good.
We need both local and global pollution sources to drop,
And a hundred years ago, you'd have said 'I live in rural America, and a gasoline pumping infrastructure is largely-nonexistent.'
Actually, you'd have said 'a paved road infrastructure is largely non-existent.'
You'd also have argued the merits of horses versus cars for most of the same arguments you make here.
Which is what many people at the time actually did.
The structure is the easy part. It's a solved problem. These printed homes will be objectively worse to the extent it might not be as easy to maintain them as other pre-fabricated housing, which has existed for decades and is arguably superior to site built--every pre-fab experiences the equivalent of a massive earthquake during transit, so their kind of built for that except for the mating lines; but I digress.
Siting is the hard part. Land cost. Foundation. Hook-ups. That's where it gets really expensive and difficult. Best case scenario for low-cost is flat land in an unpopular rural area with under-subscribed water, sewer, and power; but that only happens because nobody wants to live there in the first place.
"No matter where you go, there you are..." -- Buckaroo Banzai