I don't know, but it seems like, as a language grows, the type of people working on improvements changes. In the beginning, the contributions come from people

I don't know, but it seems like, as a language grows, the type of people working on improvements changes. In the beginning, the contributions come from people trying to solve application problems. In the end, the committees and contributors seem to be less connected to reality and more internal and isolated. They make changes that seem conceptually sound but aren't grounded in what the users of the language actually care about.