https://github.com/zordius/lightncandy/commits/master/ last commit Mar 2022...
https://github.com/zordius/lightncandy/pull/355 hasn't been merged (very simple PR) since October 2021
We could fork, but then we take on maintenance burden.
No testing or whatever done, but https://github.com/devtheorem/php-handlebars was suggested.