This doesn't exactly get at it, but https://ciel-lang.org/ https://ciel-lang.org/ is at least attacking part of too-many-steps problem while focusing more on th

This doesn't exactly get at it, but https://ciel-lang.org/ https://ciel-lang.org/ is at least attacking part of too-many-steps problem while focusing more on the too-many-choices and long in the tooth defaults (as I understand it).