That’s actually a really bad business plan. It’s like Microsoft saying “Screw all of you Windows 7 users, you have to use Windows 10 now and we don’t care if you like it or not. And if you don’t like it, tough luck.”
The point is, it doesn’t matter where your local PHP environment is installed in. If you know how to install it in Linux and you prefer Windows. Then it’s your choice. An example can be myself. It’s not really that hard to install the PHP environment on Linux. All you just have to do is install Apache or Ngix first, then either PHP 5 or PHP 7, then MySQL server or maria server and that’s it. Oh and you learn all the Linux commands while you install LAMP manually like this. This isn’t the LAMP stack I’m talking about, it’s manually installing each package. You learn how to use the terminal.
I actually have less problems installing PHP on Ubuntu and Windows than having problems with having to deal with sticking to 1 specific PHP version because they don’t include others.
But hey, I’m always wrong so what the heck.