For starters, I think newcomers should look at the core languages more. It's a great way to develop a (shared) mental model, rather than do so independently, re

For starters, I think newcomers should look at the core languages more. It's a great way to develop a (shared) mental model, rather than do so independently, reinventing the wheel and then maybe finding that yours disagrees with others'. But even discounting that, I think it's still meaningful. Sugar is easier to deprecate; The desugaring can be used to remove deprecated sugar in the wild too. Core language complexity is a lot harder to eradicate.