Developer productivity is overrated, or at least we have no concrete ways of achieving it. The person who approaches everything with a for loop and doesn't have

Developer productivity is overrated, or at least we have no concrete ways of achieving it. The person who approaches everything with a for loop and doesn't have to even consider whether to use a list comprehension, map and filter, or loop is going to be very productive simply because there is no choice to be made. This is only exacerbated in teams. You're absolutely correct on basics, and those can't really be worked on unless devs are stripped of everything but basic constructs like the function. Rust and Haskell are too much for the average dev and maybe even good devs