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It's all just trade-offs. "Verbosity" is too abstract to argue by itself because it comes in so many different flavors and spectrums.

For example, the Elm lang eschews abstractions for boilerplate, deciding that the boilerplate is worth the simplicity. And I've come to appreciate its trade-offs. For example, coming back to Elm after a long break, I've not had to spend much time recredentializing in it like I had to an old Purescript project.

On the other end of the spectrum, there's something like Rails that avoids boilerplate at the high price of having to keep more complexity in your head.