The problem in your rant is comparing Reddit to "quantum mechanics". Reddit is a (huge) CRUD. You don't really need any fancy languages or abstractions becaus

The problem in your rant is comparing Reddit to "quantum mechanics". Reddit is a (huge) CRUD. You don't really need any fancy languages or abstractions because frankly the difference they are going to make is negligible. Go to places where they do software to solve problems which "undergrads might have a hard time understanding them" and then for sure you'll start to see extremely domain specific languages.