You can't really cite Oberon as 1992 mainstream computing, already back then Wirth was rejecting a lot of the things that were happening -- and continues to do

You can't really cite Oberon as 1992 mainstream computing, already back then Wirth was rejecting a lot of the things that were happening -- and continues to do so. Heck, Oberon-7 eliminated multiple returns… Both Wirth and Pike had the various PARC systems as inspiration. Sure, things like the BLIT or the Ceres tried to do such GUI things with way less hardware to throw at it, but their rejection of some concepts goes beyond mere RAM constraints. Or else they would've rectified that once powerful consumer hardware went mainstream. Wirth's opinions on "proper" design haven't changed that much. I'm also not quite sure that the arc of the programming universe errs towards productivity improvement.