This is ridiculous; there's certainly a place for creative code. It's an obfuscated code competition. Yes, you can write a BrainFuck interpreter in the C prepro

This is ridiculous; there's certainly a place for creative code. It's an obfuscated code competition. Yes, you can write a BrainFuck interpreter in the C preprocessor. If it was your job, would you do it that way? Would you saddle other people with the work of maintaining your implementation? The second half of your argument is equally vexing. Yes, ideally tools would turn intent into actions. We would think, or express what we want at some high level, and it would come into existence. That's not how the real world works. Painters need to use a brush, musicians need an instrument, or at least sheet music. Some would argue that brushwork is like coding style. But the thing is, do you want to work on a team of Jackson Pollocks?