I'm a web host but not of your typical kind. I work in higher education. I've got a small team that does web development, server management and supports the user base of 200 editors on all our WordPress sites.

Higher education and enterprise is not going to take kindly of seeing non-dissemble in your face warnings to update to the latest PHP. Personally we have all servers at PHP 5.6 and we're looking at implementing 7 but we're not there yet.

I feel for the big hosts but as their full-time job is managing fleets of servers and server software they should be able to do this and get it right. I personally have sites with a shared host and they've gotten it right with php 7 and I appreciate that.

I just think for the needs of enterprise and higher education where we can't move quickly and this isn't our full time job managing servers and ensuring the stack is at the latest and greatest, we shouldn't be penalised with these non-dismissble messages.

I for one, will be reevaluating if Yoast SEO is installed on my sites.