I think you've proved your second point by getting your first wrong. The benchmarks posted are for a stack including PHP, not PHP itself (and not the fastest stack with e.g. pgsql).
Also, I don't think thosd benchmarks use php 8, which is the first version with the jit that the post above referred to.
Vertx framework which is based on Java is at 8th position and PHP is 18th.
But the larger point is performance is only one aspect while considering which programming lang. or framework to use