It seems to me that their threshold for introducing new language features is extremely low. If something cannot be made to look flawlessly pretty using existing

It seems to me that their threshold for introducing new language features is extremely low. If something cannot be made to look flawlessly pretty using existing syntax they will go to any length to fix it, regardless of how much extra complexity they have to introduce. Result builders are a case in point. Essentially, they didn't like the bracket and the comma between array items in the special case where a function returns only a single array. // So rather than this let items = makeUgly { [ Item("One"), Item("Two"), Item("Three") ] } // It had to look like this let items = makePretty { Item("One") Item("Two") Item("Three") } Yes, it's prettier. There's a bit less clutter. But there's a cost too. makePretty uses entirely different language semantics without any syntactical clue at the call site. So now there are essentially two separate syntax modes in Swift, and every time you look at some code you have to make up your mind on whether to read it in normal mode or in result builder mode. Sometimes that's easy to know in context. But it's another thing you have to pay attention to at all times.