CSS is a lot like JavaScript: cobbled together in a hurry and designed to be excruciatingly easy to get started with, almost to the exclusion of all other conce

CSS is a lot like JavaScript: cobbled together in a hurry and designed to be excruciatingly easy to get started with, almost to the exclusion of all other concerns. It makes me wonder if it's even possible to design a language that's both easy for abject beginners, while simultaneously being powerful, expressive and productive for experts at scale. Is that even a topic of study in language design?