I do. I was using it back in 2003... pear/DB. I still have some code from that era that uses it.

Would you use a pear dependency in a new project if you weren't pulling bits in from an older one?

Personally, I wouldn't... I worked with pear and pecl and composer is just far more pleasant to interact with.

I agree... No, I would not. That code is old enough to drive at this point...

actively maintained pear packages can be installed also with composer

Which is literally irrelevant to my point.