You allude to it, but I want to highlight an exception: GfA BASIC, widely used on the Atari ST in the late 1980’s, and later also available on Windows (with a

You allude to it, but I want to highlight an exception: GfA BASIC, widely used on the Atari ST in the late 1980’s, and later also available on Windows (with a compiler, even), didn’t suffer most of the limitations you mention. It was a great and modern (for the time) language. See the screenshot on Wikipedia for an impression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFA_BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFA_BASIC