I'm curious if some of this is the fact that a lot of senior folks are learning new languages for the first time in a long time. I think we unnecessarily const

I'm curious if some of this is the fact that a lot of senior folks are learning new languages for the first time in a long time. I think we unnecessarily constrain language design if they have to look like everything that came before. I remember learning Java was a piece of cake. Go was too. Both were remarkably similar to previous languages I knew. Rust was/is a lot more difficult, but nowhere close to the mindfuck that is Haskell or ML. I mean, is it that bad that it takes a month to really learn a new language if it can provide worthwhile benefits?