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I also don’t know how to refine my thought but it’s something along the lines of: The people who are in a position to decide what features get added to a langu

I also don’t know how to refine my thought but it’s something along the lines of: The people who are in a position to decide what features get added to a language are usually top experts and are unlikely to have any reasonable perspective on how complicated is too complicated for the rest of us. If you live and breathe a language, just one more feature can seem like a small deal. I think it becomes much more reasonable when that one more feature enables an entire set of capabilities and isn’t just something a library or an existing feature could cover.

int_19h 2y ago
For many languages these days, evolution happens in public, and you can look at those discussions and see how this sausage is made. If you do it for C#, if anything, the pattern is that relatively inexperienced users are the ones who propose features (to make some specific pet peeve of theirs easier), while the more experienced folk and especially the language designers who make the final call aggressively push back, point out corner cases, backwards compatibility, maintenance burden etc.