At the risk of being a pedant, I think your argument is too absolutist for it to really mean anything. The exact same argument can be used by a sufficiently st

At the risk of being a pedant, I think your argument is too absolutist for it to really mean anything. The exact same argument can be used by a sufficiently stubborn greybeard to bemoan the fact that C implicitly decides what registers to use for variables, as well as by a more "modern" developer to complain about == vs === in JS. Surely you agree these levels of implicitness are not the same?