Free hosting is still using PHP 7.4.8 which was end of life last year. You have been saying PHP 8 is on the roadmap “soon” since 2022. Surely maintaining your server software is a core part of server administration…
You are correct, which is why we are in the process of upgrading to PHP8.1.
However we have been running into some error, so the upgrade process has been temporarily paused until they are fixed.