The only thing that disagree with in your whole post is 'XSLT is a pain in the butt' far from it. I aint no master either but i really like it.
XSLT is a pain in the butt if you want to master it - particularly if you're going from imperative programming to declarative (maybe XPath is functional, but declaring templates is definately declarative) as many PHP developers would be. It took me a good twelve months to "get it" (eg. use XPath filters and not <xsl:if/>). That didn't stop me from churning out some production applications using XSLT. You can learn the basics without mastering it and still find it plenty useful. I would argue that my XSLT skills still leave a lot to be desired, but mastery of it is still worthwhile persuing. Quite simply, XSLT has a lot of depth.
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