There is an opinion that learning things more thoroughly is helped by making said things in some particular ways[0] harder to learn (so we struggle at first, ma

There is an opinion that learning things more thoroughly is helped by making said things in some particular ways[0] harder to learn (so we struggle at first, make our discoveries and get that dopamine boost when we grasp a concept). If we take it as a given, then (controversial opinion) it seems possible that popularity of languages and paradigms that are easy and make intuitive sense (and are not weird, like functional languages) could by itself lead to a lowering of average knowledge level across the industry, even if the difficulty of a language has nothing to do with it being objectively somehow better. [0] Not the way Brainf*^%k does it, though.