Once you've jumped the shark and play with introspection and internals, are you really going to make the point that metaprogramming should be banned ? "Banned"

Once you've jumped the shark and play with introspection and internals, are you really going to make the point that metaprogramming should be banned ? "Banned", no. Just that's not simply this big trove of goodies that it's often cracked up to be. And in particular, it isn't strictly speaking necessary or essential for a language to be successful -- or even among the top 5 considerations that make a language successful or not.