I think this can be the curse of popularity. The demand from more and more users of different feature, especially backed by industries who rely on the language,

I think this can be the curse of popularity. The demand from more and more users of different feature, especially backed by industries who rely on the language, means that slowly over time, all popular languages accumulate scope and feature creep to some extent. But at the same time, for serious industry work, those features do come in handy when you do need them. I think this is why to some extent you never hear that much good of the old tried and tested languages. They always feel bloated, disorganized, confusing, with too much cruft, and yet it's all that which make them what they are.