"COBOL was also enormously complex, even for today’s languages" Is that true? What was the complexity about? I've never done COBOL, but I was always under impr

"COBOL was also enormously complex, even for today’s languages" Is that true? What was the complexity about? I've never done COBOL, but I was always under impression that it was quite straightforward in its infamous clunkiness, lacking lots of constructs that've been obvious for decades now