I'm guessing you're using opencart cuz I've been working with an old codebase for around a year and I would love if any code analysis or intelisense actually worked... on xml files... with php in them... with javascript in php variables... with calls to php inside xml files...
It's a pretty good analogy for other reasons too. You may be able to make some tasty stuff in a microwave and it's brilliant for a bunch of uses... but you wouldn't call yourself a chef, or serve it to anyone who expected "gourmet shit".