It's not obvious that "LLVM, but not incredibly frustrating" is a thing which can exist. I don't think it's likely, but it's possible that in a few decades the

It's not obvious that "LLVM, but not incredibly frustrating" is a thing which can exist. I don't think it's likely, but it's possible that in a few decades the widespread view will be that the very concept of LLVM was a mistake, and a universal compiler backend is just a trap which makes it easy to bootstrap a language but inevitably causes massive problems down the road. LLVM does have plenty of incidental problems which are clearly fixable and just need a lot of work, but even if you fixed all of them you'd still have people who use LLVM ranting about it.