Hi @bshaffer,

Totally agree things should be kept as simple and semantic as possible 👍

After some quick tests, $_SERVER is a valid location for env variables to exist when running from PHP cli for example.

Try the following script:

<?php

var_dump($_ENV);
var_dump($_SERVER);

php test.php results in

array(0) {
}
array(52) {
<my system's environment variables here>
}

So learning about this, keeping $_SERVER seems like the right thing to do.