[ethbro]

A valid point. I didn't mention it above to stay concise, but the question then becomes:

If you can reliably generate boilerplate, AND it's non-editable, then why is it required by the language in the first place?

If it is editable, then it collapses back down into review burden.

I think this is where "sane, invisible, overridable defaults" shines. Boilerplate should be invisible in its default behavior. BUT the language should afford methods to change its default behavior when necessary.