I think it really depends on both language and language culture. Dynamic Dispatch and function overloading is the basic way to program in Elixir, every basic tu

I think it really depends on both language and language culture. Dynamic Dispatch and function overloading is the basic way to program in Elixir, every basic tutorial will teach newcomers how to do it, linters will complain if your methods have too much conditionals inside instead of outside and programs will elegantly look like state machines at top level. On the other hand Elixir also has macros, but they are instead discouraged and considered an advanced topic, while in other languages like racket and lisp languages they are usually a prominent tool. What enters in play is the principle of the least surprise. If a feature is frequently used then everyone can identify it, know it's effects and understand it's limitations, and so it stops being confusing. If it's a feature built for the 1% libraries that requires some special DSL syntax and you can only find deep in the manual or in advanced books then it's probably something you should use very sparingly.