[dropofwill]

None of those languages have one way to do everything, I would even wager none have only one way to do anything.

Simplicity comes at a cost, compare Elm to Purescript/Haskell for example. Elm lacks type classes, so it’s simpler and more explicit, but that comes at the cost of verbosity and duplication. This was an explicit decision to make the language more friendly for beginners, and that’s a reasonable trade off to make, but it’s not universally better.