In my experience of using D at work alongside people who barely know how to program (i.e. smart but not culturally a Dev), and people who just didn't know D: if

In my experience of using D at work alongside people who barely know how to program (i.e. smart but not culturally a Dev), and people who just didn't know D: if you have smart devs simplicity doesn't matter very much. If anything it's easier to teach a concept than wait for a programmer to be able to see through a wall of messy simplicity.