To me, the question is who is allowed to make the choice? Is it the language designer's place to say what can or cannot be done with it or the person/team who

To me, the question is who is allowed to make the choice? Is it the language designer's place to say what can or cannot be done with it or the person/team who chooses what they do with it? Personally, I would rather work with programming languages which allow me/the team to choose. YMMV.