Hard to explain why, but Zig/C are both operating in space of hobby projects, where being "easy to learn, hard to master" is criticial to tinkering/optimizing

Hard to explain why, but Zig/C are both operating in space of hobby projects, where being "easy to learn, hard to master" is criticial to tinkering/optimizing/exploring: this is in contrast to "building big systems" approach for serious software, where you follow design-rule-implement chains of components working as prescribed.