Yeah, but I think it was there first and the city grew up around it. PHX isn't nearly as bad as San Diego, a postage stamp-sized airport surrounded by hills and tall buildings. PHX is big like LAX, with multiple runways.
They could move all the airlines thirty miles southeast to an expanded Phoenix-Mesa Gateway airport (Allegiant Air has a hub there now), but that would make most Valley residents pretty unhappy with the much longer drive.
They will drive to get there. That and use public transportation. No matter where the hell they put it.
Just wait...
Last time I flew outta LAS we were taking off and there was a Virgin airline 747 that was trying to land, He was long and had to go around to do it again. Problem was, we were already on the way and we watched that 747 comming right straight at us. They might have thought it was a long way off but..
It was to late to abort. Gull dang, that one shook me up. Somebody screwed up.