Allow me to summarise the pitfalls of any sweeping 'keeping features out of the languge spec will prevent users from having to deal with the complexity burden o

Allow me to summarise the pitfalls of any sweeping 'keeping features out of the languge spec will prevent users from having to deal with the complexity burden of those features' assumption with a story: Once, long ago, there was a new programming language. It was lean and mean. Partly to keep codebases understandable to all, and to make the language easy to learn and straightforward, it eschewed both having too many features, and having any feature that was too abstruse. People marvelled that the whole language, standard library and all, could fit in a nutshell. The name of the language was Java. The end.