This is such a strawman. I really doubt that there are a lot of people who favour terse programming languages (or programming practices) only because of how lit

This is such a strawman. I really doubt that there are a lot of people who favour terse programming languages (or programming practices) only because of how little they have to write - if that was the only concern, they would be happy with a verbose language as long as it had good support for autocomplete and boilerplate generators. Some people think that terse code is more readable, not just more writeable.