It seems perverse to make a ubiquitous operation (formatting a string) intentionally hard just because some people may use it for inappropriate purposes such as

It seems perverse to make a ubiquitous operation (formatting a string) intentionally hard just because some people may use it for inappropriate purposes such as building SQL queries from untrusted input. Sure, we should have ergonomic easy of building prepared statements and such but that doesn't seem like something that belongs in the standard library. Or maybe it does. But either way there are many, many legitimate use cases for string formatting.