English is not my native language or anything, but the bolded part of the following reads very strangely (wtf just goes through your head when reading it), so I think it might be a typo a could use a rewording (maybe it was supposed to be: than Twig templates).

Generally speaking, PHP templates are much more verbose than in Twig because they lack native support for lots of modern features needed by templates, like inheritance, automatic escaping and named arguments for filters and functions.

http://symfony.com/doc/current/best_practices/templates.html