I agree with you that evolving languages that have been around for a long time is very difficult, with hard tradeoffs and unclear answers. I think calling form

I agree with you that evolving languages that have been around for a long time is very difficult, with hard tradeoffs and unclear answers. I think calling formatted printing “cognitive load” is a bit much though. If anything this is easier to understand and use than stdio and iostreams. It’s closer to other languages in this area. I probably would have voted yes on this if I were on the relevant committee.