[eric_the_read]

It's more than that; there's a lot of tooling and documentation around Elixir that either doesn't exist in Erlang or appears to exist only via tribal knowledge ("Well, of course everyone knows you need to {X} to {Y}, why waste time writing it down?"). My experience trying to write a gen_server that could be upgraded on-line in Elixir was vastly simpler than trying to figure it out in Erlang.

That said, I think Elixir has helped inspire the Erlang community to get better at documentation and tooling, so that's a definite win for both.