I just wanted PHP 8.2 (Composer had other ideas)

TL;DR This is a rant, a developer war story of how to use docker to work around a problem that shouldn&rsquo;t exist in the first place. Configure your PHP project with a different, lower version, of PHP than you are using yourself. Read how I spent an evening fighting PHP. The bare minimum Can someone in PHP land please tell me why composer is unable to create a project on PHP version 8.2 when…