New features is not incompatible with easier to learn. User will have to learn at some point how to do X with the language. Without the new feature, that might

New features is not incompatible with easier to learn. User will have to learn at some point how to do X with the language. Without the new feature, that might be some complex pattern which is difficult for user to remember, let alone come up with by themselves. While using an additional feature it may be trivial to learn that feature to do X.