This can be generalized to any opinionated technology: making a platform/language/whatever more opinionated lifts the average case, and lowers the ceiling. This

This can be generalized to any opinionated technology: making a platform/language/whatever more opinionated lifts the average case, and lowers the ceiling. This is one of many pervasive and recurring trade-offs in our industry. The web is an opinionated platform, that has this giant escape-hatch called JavaScript. If you choose to go off-roading, you have more power and also more responsibility.