Lots of times you could write something more succinctly with less boilerplate using, say, C preprocessor macros, but then end up losing out on debuggability, an

Lots of times you could write something more succinctly with less boilerplate using, say, C preprocessor macros, but then end up losing out on debuggability, and sometimes searchability. Complex block based editing etc. is useful in those situations. It's a limitation of the tools.