My goal is “most reliable and concise for experts,” because we should spend most of our careers as experts, and “easy to learn” requires bad tradeoffs too often

My goal is “most reliable and concise for experts,” because we should spend most of our careers as experts, and “easy to learn” requires bad tradeoffs too often. Learning common names and reusing tested implementations pays off over rolling my own on the spot and forcing everyone else to re-read it.