I think you're missing the point. These are fundamentally, but deceivingly, hard problems. The choice to only solve a subset of the problem is almost always the

I think you're missing the point. These are fundamentally, but deceivingly, hard problems. The choice to only solve a subset of the problem is almost always the right way forward, but you can only make that decision if you understand how hard the problem is. A less knowledgeable developer can and will bite off more than they can chew with these things. Contrast with things like interpreters that a are a lot simpler to build and work with than most engineers think they are, and a perfectly reasonable solution to lots of problems.