I agree. And the thing is, you could take out that final paragraph and I'd agree with every other word in the piece. It should be perfectly possible to write l

I agree. And the thing is, you could take out that final paragraph and I'd agree with every other word in the piece. It should be perfectly possible to write libraries and frameworks which are easier to use without writing additional layers of abstraction. Instead of writing a new template language in PHP on top of PHP, we could write it in C (or Rust) and it shouldn't be substantially slower or more resource intensive. This would of course require an experienced programmer who knows a lower level language, but then the barrier to entry would be lower for everyone else!