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PHP seems to be doing better and better with tooling since the plethora of changes got gradually added.
Due to the introduction of better types support; psalm, phpstan, can statically analyze your PHP code and surface bugs that you might overlook in the past. Of course this is what static typing programmers have been preaching all along, but you don't have to go all in, some gradual typing is enough to get benefits.
Ok, you don't want to use the extra type support that PHP nowadays has, you can still benefit from it. Tools like https://github.com/RectorPHP/Rector help you automate PHP code updates, and changes between framework versions. Even the linked proposal includes a script based around the recent-ish PHP built-in tokenizer (no regex shenanigans), to migrate the code for you.
There's some churn, but generally deprecations are sensible. I'm also active in other language communities and deprecation paces are comparable IMO.